A final crop of tomatoes before preparing the planter for late autumn

Cleaning out some of the projects birds nest boxes

You can find more information on maintaining bird nest boxes on the RSBP website here.

Maintaining the area around my raised planters

Tidying the edging to the wildlife friendly banking area

 

Maintaining the wildlife friendly area

Time to tidy up in the poly tunnel

Preparing some of my raised planters

Common lizards enjoying the summer heat

Signs of summer........I can taste them already

Large skipper, small tortoiseshell and painted lady butterflies

Ox eye daisy on the wildlife friendly banking area

A common blue butterfly and a dingy skipper basking in the sun

A slow worm on the wildlife friendly banking area

A morning spent thinning out lettuce seedlings and transplanting tomato plants

Re-potting tomato seedlings in the poly tunnel

Thats the strawberries transplanted and the salad leaf seedlings watered

Thinning out the grasses on the wildlife friendly banking area

An enjoyable hour or two spent thinning out the various grasses on the wildlife friendly banking area between two of the mini beast hotels using hand tools and taking care to minimise any disturbance to the reptiles who inhabit this area. Thinning out grasses will allow more room and more light for the yellow rattle which will help to keep them control.

Providing some of the colour on the den

Trimming the grass along the banking adjacent to the railway line

That should allow a little more space for the wild flowers to get established.

Common lizards basking in the April sun

A busy time in the poly tunnel