Week 38 - You build them up, and you knock them down
At the end of September, everything starts to really slow down in the garden, giving the well planned self-sufficient farmer a great opportunity to panic that he doesn’t have enough firewood for the winter.
There is no such thing as enough firewood. Just a reasonably large amount of too much.
In the first year, I had not enough, and spent quite a lot of money on buying it in. Last year, I didn’t buy any, but towards the end of the extra-long and extra-cold winter, it was getting a bit touch and go.
Yesterday and today, I went a bit axe-and-chainsaw crazy. I chopped about 1.5 cubic meters of beech, and three of spruce. Chopping beech is TOUGH.
You can’t just go around chopping up trees though. You gotta plants them as well.
I popped two new plum trees into the orchard - a Victoria plum and a greengage. A friend offered to take me tree shopping and so of course I went. This addiction must stop.
All fruits which basically look a bit like a plum are actually plums. Mirablelles, damsons, greengages, plumcots - they are all the same Prunus.
And because I was planting trees, I also planted two True Service Trees that I happened to have lying around in pots since last year.
Oh, and the shop also had a Ginko going cheap. So I planted one of them as well. It’s next to the Sequoiadendron giganteum - the giant redwood.
The oldest and the biggest trees together at last.