More Sunshine!

Two days in a row! Loving it! Even had Pip out to enjoy the blue skies!
It was so good to really get my teeth into some work today (mind you, I am feeling it a bit tonight!!)

I scraped off the newspaper and mulch from one half of the raised bed and was really pleased that I had almost no weeds at all to contend with! It was just a matter of giving it a dig over and admiring the worms.

I planned on putting our carrots in here

I don’t do much special. Just sprinkle them along.
Later when they are about little finger size, I start pulling them to eat, leaving a few well spaced for later so they grow bigger.

Pleased to fit five rows in this little space!

Job one done.

I then went into the main patch and finished turning over the green manure. I think I was meant to leave it a few weeks to start breaking down etc. Nope. Running out of time, so the corn seeds went in today and they just have to do their best!

I have about 130 seeds in. Enough do you think??
I also went and put in a row of marigolds at the end as the seedlings were a good size

I needed to use the barrow full of mulch from the carrot patch, so I quickly started weeding a bit of the garlic patch and mulched it. Still a lot to go to get it finished.

Then onto that middle patch – That took a fair bit of work. The soil is still gluggy, but a good portion is now cleaned up, weeded and turned over.
I plan to put my zucchinis in here

That makes the whole area look so much better, even though I know there is still a lot to be done!

Rhubarb, Parsley & celery. I actually just transplanted the parsley… will see soon enough if it was happy about that or not!

Here’s hoping for a few more days in the sun!

Hope your weekends were fabulous!

Cheers!

Author: Lisa

A happy traveller through life! Right now living in NW Tasmania with a gorgeous Nurse-Husband, a fool of a Siamese Cat and several chickens. We love our fairly simple lifestyle of growing a lot of what we eat and enjoying the stunning surrounds of our little patch.

4 thoughts on “More Sunshine!”

    1. Hi Jennifer. In my experience the seeds won’t germinate well or if at all through the mulch. I remember failing at beetroot seeds because I did that and a gardening cousin explained. Which makes sense as the mulch suppresses the weeds growing, so I guess anything I deliberately plant would have the same trouble.
      Once the plants are along a bit I might add the mulch back although I have never gotten around to mulching my carrots before (only via laziness not choice haha)

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