6 June 08

Notching

Not much to show for all our hard work today. We spent our time cutting notches, here they are.

We're doing it with a hand saw because we don't have anything else that will do it accurately enough. It's a bit like the tyre pounding, you just have to accept it's going to take as long as it takes and get on with it.

The raspberries are struggling on. Out of the 7 planted 3 are still sprouting new leaves, one even has a flower bud on it. The other 4 (3 of which were planted in full sun) are leafless. I'm not giving up on them yet as one started to sprout from the ground a while ago.

In contrast, our raspberries at home are giving us about a kilo a week. They were planted about 3 years ago and are in part sun part shade. I seem to remember they struggled in their first year too.

I think the satsuma tree has settled in a bit now. It seems to have stopped dropping it's leaves - it dropped loads to start with which is why it's nearly bald. Hopefully now we've reached a stage where it has gotten over the trauma of the move and will start repairing and establishing it's root system.

As for the figs, I'm not even going to photo the two dried up sticks that remain of them. I'm still watering them ever hopeful that their roots are still good.