West of Ireland May 2023

Here's a link to the photo album with commentary from the latest two week section of an Irish walk continuing from Ballycastle ,North Mayo where we left off in May 2022. 

  https://photos.app.goo.gl/MQ3SoATf26rK6YjL6

We followed the Western Way through the forest and Sheskin wind turbine works, diverting to Bangor Erris onto the Bangor Trail through the Wild Nephin NP to rejoin the WW at Letterkeen and continued down through Newport ,Westport and then some remoter parts of Connemara to Maam. Andrew did some extra miles to reach the Aran Islands Ferry at Rossaveel to be in position for the next leg of his journey.

 

 

Early May on the plot with a few changes

 

The beds are beginning to fill up with a mixture of direct sowings and transplantings

Overwintered Japanese Onions from sets with a couple of rows of garlic 

Masterpiece Broad Beans and Ulster Prince potatoes,with mixed direct sown succession bed behind which has just swapped over from a early spring Thermacrop cover up to netting against the Sparrows.

Redcurrent bush probably has too much old wood but it's looking healthy and has a decent amount of fruit spurs.

I've removed the double height boards from the two small lower field side beds which were meant to help reduce waterlogging but actually made it worse. Now open sided beds with make do paving paths which cost me nowt.

Permaculture mixed fruit corner and some Good King Henry in old bags