Planting a mulberry tree | Planning veg beds | Life on 8 acres

[@mywildwelshgarden-es3fr]

It`s hard work planting trees. I hope your little mulberry tree does well for you. I visited Llanerchaeron garden, near New Quay. I don`t know if you know it, but if you don`t they have huge old mulberry trees in the walled garden. Just amazing. We sat under one to eat our lunch as it was raining and stayed dry! There was lots of fruit and they looked ripe but were still quite sour. A lot had fallen on the ground so I think there is a very small window of opportunity for picking them between ripening and falling off. Best of luck with yours.

[@mymessyplot]

I wonder if that means that mulberries don't properly sweeten up here in Wales - I hope not but I'll find out in a few years when this one starts fruiting (fingers crossed!). I just checked, Llanerchaeron garden is less than half an hour from me so I'll have to pay it a visit - I do love visiting a nice garden. If you're ever up this way again, do come and visit if you fancy a chat about all things wild 😃 Right, I've seen that you've uploaded a new video so I'm off to watch that with a cuppa.

[@thereandbackagain9082]

@@mywildwelshgarden-es3fr great believer in collecting seeds and spreading the on the wild areas. They grow. Great. A lot cheaper than purchasing saplings.

[@mywildwelshgarden-es3fr]

@@mymessyplot I would love to visit and see your fabulous place. Thanks. Ditto, next time you are visiting your family.

[@thereandbackagain9082]

This ground has not been turned for a long time. Suggest you get local farmer in with tractor. Save you a lot of backbreaking work.

[@mymessyplot]

Thanks for the suggestion 😃

[@thereandbackagain9082]

@@mymessyplot on seeing your field layout I personally would use the fields at the top of the hill. Better drainage and more light.

[@mymessyplot]

@@thereandbackagain9082 you’re right, i might have to resort to that one day but at the moment i want to see if i can make something workable near the house. The top fields are so far away!

[@myrustygarden]

it is a UK term Nick the Gardener told me about (see sharing around the world) Yes intake a spade and

[@myrustygarden]

I agree with the previous comment that ground has been compacted for god knows how long so a tractor would be great to till it all even just once. (But yes I get it would cost 💲. We only have an acre and don’t know how we’d do have our work without our tractor 🚜. Oh horseradish 🤬 I put some in a bed once and it took me years to get it out. Hope the mulberry does well 🤞 and eucalyptus too🤞. How are your Welsh lessons coming along? 😂 me too one thing always gets moved to another while working in another 🤦‍♀️. 12:04 they look like a “weed tree” similar to our birch varieties. Sedum autumn joy 🤩 I have loads and I found out it can be pruned in spring to keep it compact. But I am brutal with mine in spring I take a shovel and split it and now I have tons of them. Asparagus is fine it will be ok in pots over winter but a bigger pot wouldn’t hurt. Anyway enough of me waffling 😂😂 have a marvellous day and keep up the great work, Ali ☔️🇨🇦 The Chelsea chop is apparently what cutting the autumn joy sedum is called I’m going to do a bit of research

[@mymessyplot]

Ali, thanks for taking the time to give all this feedback! Autumn joy is the perfect name for that sedum as its still in full colour now when there are few other flowers in this garden. When you say you split it in spring - is that the root ball you split? I didn't know the term Chelsea chop was used in other parts of the world - we use it here because the chop happens at around the same time of year as the Chelsea flower show. But maybe I got that completely wrong and the name comes from something else entirely! 🤣 I tried googling 'weed tree' to see if its something I want to grow and all the results I got back were for the type of weed that you'd smoke - not the same plant at all - I will keep trying with a different search engine!

[@myrustygarden]

🤪🤪 you need some sheep 🐑 or cows 🐄 to eat the grass

[@thereandbackagain9082]

@@myrustygarden goats will clear it out including the new tree...

[@mymessyplot]

Lol! yes I've heard they eat everything in sight 🤣

[@thereandbackagain9082]

That looks like an overgrown ditch not a pond. It just may need cleaning out to help the water flow away.

[@mymessyplot]

It does look like a ditch, but the previous owner dug it out for his geese and it's marked on the land plan as a pond. He called it an ephemeral pond, it's not lined so if we ever actually have a dry summer here in Wales, the pond will dry up until it rains again. I'd much prefer a wildlife pond that stayed full all year - a future project.

[@thereandbackagain9082]

@@mymessyplot not all wild ponds stay full all year around unless fed by a stream/spring. Probably further to the left corner of that field would work better as more of your land drains into it.

[@mymessyplot]

@@thereandbackagain9082 good eye!