Awful neologism: ‘repurposing’

 

I finally gave up on the San Marzano tomatoes.  Our total useable crop amounted to one tomato.  The main benefit of growing the twenty-ish plants was the exercise in watering them and digging them up.  Martyn has hauled out the remains of the runner beans, and the bean poles are out and stored.  The raised beds are now host to some rooted cuttings, so their role is now as nursery beds. 

We’ve kept the best of the sage plants, surrounding it with potentilla, cistus, aquilegia and a solitary lavender.  The other raised bed is gradually filling up with little rosemary plants.  I’ve no doubt we’ll spend the next few months hoeing out seedlings of spinach, rocket, etc, as well as the ever-present oxalis and oak seedlings. The little greenhouse is pretty full again: the space gained by planting out cuttings and seedlings has been taken up with polyanthus and winter pansies, a few of which are already flowering.  We’ll shortly have vacancies in the hanging baskets and tubs, and the space in the greenhouse will be ready for geranium cuttings next spring after the frosts: we’ll start them in the conservatory.

Well, them’s the plans at least…