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Strawberry Steps & Herb Garden

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- Blossom:    - Most finishing    - Cherry just starting    - Quince progressing but a way off yet - Tulips developing - Oregon Grape flowering - Primrose windowbox a failure - Finished alpine step - Weeded back path - Dewilded border of Strawberry Steps/Herb Garden - Weeded & dug over herb garden: gap between J8 D-P3 & fence, house-side.

Stripping Cherry Tree

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 - Family endeavour: cutting branches & pulling off cherries. 6 bin bags worth - Disentangled vine from cherry tree & took some leaves for sermichki - Planted: two more mint & clusters of thyme in herb garden - Weeded herb garden & around cucumbers & tomatoes - First courgette almost ready - Blackberries forming, flowers almost over - Berries on Oregon Grape - Added more wire to cucumber & tomato structures & tied everything up. Biggest crocodile cucumber on its fourth line - Attempted to move cat to front door but wouldn't budge

De-wilding

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- Trimming yukkas - Cherry blossom properly out - Pear tree blossom almost out - Oregon Grape beginning to flower - Mowing & tidying wildside

Removing (failed) herb garden

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 - Wildside compost - Mystery tubers - Dismantling (failed) herb garden - Oregon Grape - Raised, squared off area