Pete and I have a number of unfinished projects that are weighing us down, so Pete came up with the idea of JFDI June – it stands for Just F* Do It. The idea is that we finish two of the major projects so that we can start new things next month – when we will have JFDI July and try and continue the momentum.
I’ve been fighting some kind of bug and I haven’t had much energy, but this week I have been feeling better and have (somewhat unexpectedly) taken a couple of long jobs off my garden to do list.
Firstly, I spent a couple of hours pruning the fruit trees in the chicken run. Whenever I do this I normally go on about how I don’t know what I’m doing, but this time I found it quite a zen-like experience, outside in the dappled shade on a nice day. The apple, the only tree to reliably fruit, has a good crop this year; but the big news is that the three other trees (a pear, plum and cherry) also have fruit – although not enough to get excited about it does give me hope for future years. I would have grubbed them out last year, except that the one thing they do do is give the chickens some shade.
Yesterday I spent a similar amount of time removing 9 concrete blocks (they’re pretty heavy) from the Grow Dome raised bed to make it one block lower – the idea being to make it far easier to reach the back of the bed. It has had an interesting effect as the Grow Dome now looks far more open and inviting. I didn’t take two hours to move the blocks, though. I spent the rest of the time mulching with black plastic, watering, and planting out some exciting plants. Half a dozen watermelons and one luffa.
Hopefully now I can make better use of the greenhouse. I do need Pete to chop back a bush which is causing too much shade. I can’t reach, but we’ve been waiting until the sparrows finished nesting as they like that bush. Maybe it will be on the list for JFDI July ;)