Back Into The Garden – At Last!

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Today was the nicest day we have had since forever!!! I promptly abandoned all my indoor plans, pulled on my gardening clothes and headed out into the sunshine (and yes- threw through two loads of laundry that almost finished drying in the sun and light breeze!)

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The side garden was in need of help – we have family coming to stay in about a month and plan to get the winter scruffiness under control so it all looks nice again.

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I dug up the struggling lemon tree and plonked it in the ground near the original compost. It can do what it likes now – it certainly wasn’t doing much good where it was!

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In transit
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Lemon tree relocated!

Pip did the Siamese thing and lounged about – he was happier sleeping on top of some clothes of mine – in this case my gardening top, so ew!

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Jeff worked on clearing out the twitch from around the iris as best he could… next season it will need a total dig up and clear out.

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This pot of grasses I planned to relocate is completely root bound! I extracted a few pieces and replanted, but will finish the job tomorrow (hopefully without the aid of a sledgehammer!!)

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Partway through the afternoon, Cousin Jeff dropped off another load of wood! (sob sob) 🙂 Actually this lot I will leave exactly as you see it! Its mostly under cover and it would be just wasting energy to find a place to stack it.

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Pip got even more comfortable…

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Seriously – going by the photos it doesn’t look like we did much!   I am sure it will look a million times better when we get the new load of woodchips to cover the area with (tomorrow’s job if the rain doesn’t make a reappearance)

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Tomorrow’s main job is the ailing strawberry patch!

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I made a start on the strawberries and then got sidetracked by a giant slug!

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Apparently this is a leopard slug and is a ‘good slug’ not an ‘evil slug’ I don’t know much about them yet…

I will get onto Google tomorrow to read more about them

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Hope your day was full of cheerful sunshine too!

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.

One thought on “Back Into The Garden – At Last!”

  1. A good slug?? Please share what you learn on that. I’m still not sure I would let it live – what if I made a mistake and let a bad slug live? Yucky!!

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