A watering event

Fatsia of Wikipedia

The brick compost bin is near full, with all the autumn leaves to come. So emptying during the autumn is clearly indicated, with the idea being to bank it up behind the fence behind the new daffodil bed, perhaps providing some nutrients for the under-performing now-not-so-new bed. A fence which started out as a now elderly picket fence, but which, earlier this year, was reinforced with the steel mesh panels originally bought to stop small people falling into our small ponds. The idea is that, the (new small) box bush plan having been defeated by the combination of drought and caterpillar, ivy will grow up both pickets and steel, holding the whole lot together.

The compost bin is under trees and it takes a lot of rain for it to get really wet. So I thought it might speed up rotting down if I added some water to the mix. To which end I varied the up-legs of this morning's brick walk to give the compost 20 gallons. Hopefully a reasonable contribution to the rotting down of what might be as much as a cubic metre of mostly green garden waste.

Plus two gallons on each of the new yew bushes, planted to replace the (old large) box chopped down last year. See, for example, reference 4.

Plus two gallons on the spotted laurel, not doing too well underneath the ash tree, despite its robust performance in planters outside public houses.

Plus two gallons on the fatsia next to the spotted laurel. Not doing very well this year at all. Not nearly as well as the offering from Wikipedia at reference 5.

One gallon for every brick.

Not the kind of watering I usually go in for. The idea being that plants in the my part of the garden have to manage without that kind of attention, which most of them, to be fair, do.

Reference 1: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2018/02/new-wheeze.html. Panels bought.

Reference 2: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2018/02/new-purpose.html. Panels installed.

Reference 3: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/03/pondemonium-revisited.html. Panels flooded.

Reference 4: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/08/caterpillar-control-episode-2.html.

Reference 5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatsia.