Cutting trees in the potager and elsewhere

The potager has been getting more and more overshadowed by trees for some years. As we are about to put in some new beds (the wood we did 5 years ago is rotting now) we thought we had better take advantage of the lovely weather to get it done. It started as one tree we were going to cut and a few hazels and ended up as far more.

Hard to get a photo of the scale of the devastation. We left that silver birch and another smaller one. That was it.

Lots and lots of branches to be burnt and relatively little firewood. This is the way of all trees!

While we were at it we gave the plum tree at the top of the drive a drastic trim. Again many branches few logs

This is the potager with the mess cleared up. Now we can get on and do the new beds. This weeded one is going to be the first so that peas and beans can go in asap. We are also going to add a fruit cage at the other end over the raspberries, black currents, blueberries and gooseberry.