Pick your own... maybe next year!

Living up to its name quite well, today's Sunday was indeed for Phil and I a day of rest (sort of!).

Most of the day is spent continuing our sorting and tidying of yesterday so we manage to put a load more stuff up into the attic and finish sorting and cleaning the spare room that had been used for a dumping ground for some time. We then rearrange Phil's train set so it's all back to rights and make sure it's all running as it should, and it does with the assistance of some vigorous track cleaning by Moi.

After we'd done all of that we then head on out to the local garden centre to see if we can pick up some strawberry plants. According to our allotment bible September is a good time to plant strawberries for next year so whilst they were still in the shops we thought it would be a good idea to get some. I think we've both been quite proud of the fact that our Raspberries have done quite well and so since we both enjoy strawbs and rasbs we thought growing our own would be a good experiment.

Unfortunately though our local didn't have any of the plants we wanted, so we have a bit of a longer drive to a bigger place about 5 miles away. Success this time and we come back with 7 nice plants (2 varieties, including the Elan type) which were half price, so even better!

When we get home we set about planting them in our veggie plot and it's not long before they are dug in and being watered by the soak hose.

The rest of the day is spent pottering, and to be honest it was nice to mooch around the house instead of being out and about.

Posted by Abi on the September 6, 2009 9:23 PM