Today is Weed Appreciation Day

Calm down all you old hippies, this is not what you think

Weed Appreciation Day was established to remind people that a weed is just a plant growing where you don’t want it to grow. Blackberries are fantastic when you find them growing wild in the forest, but are perhaps less desirable when you find them growing in the middle of your rhododendron bushes. That’s basically the details of what makes a weed a weed, and there are hundreds of ‘weeds’ that are incredibly important in health, science, and culinary uses.

This lockdown has even got me doing a bit of gardening - not a lot, but I'm guessing that there will be more to come.

 

A mighty oak, is a weed, if you want to build a house, where it’s stood. Pretty much the definition.

 

Bill and Ben know all about weed or maybe only little ones ,flobba lob !

 

I'm partial to the Weeds also, but I hope this isnt prophetic

 

Betty has a nice array of pretty ones I’m not allowed to touch

 

We're off to the weed patch this weekend = otherwise known as the allotment

 

Did a bit yesterday, as it goes.
Safely, of course, and I can’t work from home.

 

Great day, happy weed day everyone

 

The people with a bigger stick than those who know how to plant will eat, unfortunately.

 

Were you enhancing the soil nitrogen whilst you took that photo?

 

Dig for victory Soggz
Might plant the first of my spuds this arvo. Been holding off because we’ve had a few sharp frosts of a morning.

 

I put my spuds in pots and with all this time on my hands I have been making raised beds in prep for broad beans and tomatoes.Courgettes and cucumbers popping up in the greenhouse. I cheated with the cabbage, cauli's and carrots by buying them already started off.

 

Potaoes and garlic down the allotment.
Will be filling the garden with vegetables instead of half dead grass.

 

We tend to start ours off a few weeks later up here in the frozen North. Home grown veggies rule though

 

You've still got it Malc...

 

Nuked the allotment today, first time it's not had a moat around it since October. My plot is right next to the gate, if food supplies go belly up this year I'm going to be doing a lot of digging for some bugger else.