What’s going on in your garden (2026)?

And there next batch of mushrooms is just starting.

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Today I spent mostly under the lemon tree, digging.

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Previously it was a mess of small nettles, runner grass, and rabbit holes. It was also uneven which meant that any rain or water drained away from the lemon tree and the trees met the ground as well.

So, needing to address the rabbit issues, I cut my way under the tree very carefully because it was alive with honey bees fighting between themselves over who got to get which flower, dug out the soil by 6 inches (15cm), leveled it, weeded, and then put rabbit proof wire down on the trunk to shed side, anchored it firmly, put dedicated citrus tree fertiliser down, put the soil back (hiding there white and yellow balls that would attract the chooks), levelled it and watered the tree.

(We don't know for definite but I'm likely allergic to bee and wasp stings having had an allergic reaction to a snake bite some 20yrs ago.)

Reading the instructions for the fertiliser, it says 500g of fertiliser per year's growth to a maximum of 10yrs, so basically 5Kg. I only had a half used 2½kg bag! The tree is +60yrs old, like most things in the garden. I'm also quite happy now that the trunk and the

So that took from 9am until 3pm today. It was hard work because I could only use a hand trowel, and in order not to damage roots too much, it was slow work carefully crawling around underneath the tree. It's had a bit of a prune as well, but I finally have the graft site back above the soil level (thank you rabbits).

I do now also have about 20 lemons in various stages of ripeness.
 
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