Hello! I hope everyone is relaxed and happy after all the festivities!
Look at that luscious basil! First time to put some in the salad!!
I bravely took Megumi out to Spotlight today (yarn shop) as the Boxing Day sales were on – she wanted to get some yarn to make a rug (I think I mentioned I am teaching her crochet) and I wanted more to make a rug for my Canadian niece for her next years Christmas present (Nothing like getting pre prepared right?)
Then it was onto the garden
I think I could safely say my sweet peas were done. Time to clean up this whole garden.
Since its not a food garden its had to take a back seat. But really… it was getting pretty tragic looking
Jeff weeded this end for me. I dug up and transplanted some sunflowers and mulched it with what seaweed I had left. Hopefully they will perk up again after their move!
I also have a lot of marigolds all clustered together in the herb garden (where else?) so I did a lot of marigold moving
I also plan to put in a few snow peas at the back of this trellis. Not sure, it might be too late in the season, but I might as well try.
This garden has also produced a few self seeded tomatoes (of course) so letting them go to see what I get.
Here is a mystery. One of my zucchinis looks like its on its last legs!! The other three are doing just fine!! I wonder why?
I was rather excited to pick my first beetroot. I am really looking forward to having pickled beetroot again.
More fresh lettuce and more freshly dug potatoes for dinner.
I do like having my own produce shop down the back!!
Well.. its way past time for me to buzz off to bed. Spent an hour or so mucking about on the ‘help’ line for the phone/internet service because it was taking 20 minutes to upload an image. Not cool. And really NOT what I wanted to be doing with my evening. You all know how much I LOVE dealing with Telstra!! haha
Cheers!
It always feels so rewarding to do those gardening jobs that we have been putting off doesn’t it. We whipper snipped our back yard and inside Narnia (our fully enclosed veggie wicking fridge garden) as it was looking junglesque in there and now its all nice and tidy. Next we are heading to Bunnings to pick up a wading pool for our duck to replace her ageing pool and her pool is going out to be kept filled for the wallabies, possums and snakes so that they don’t have to invade Poland for a drink and can stay WELL away from our back yard! (Especially the snakes!) I haven’t been to Spotlight for a while and am trying to spin my own yarn. At the moment it looks like a 4 year old’s efforts but one day…
Thanks for the chuckle!! Our back paddocks (well they aren’t ours) got slashed today. Hoping that puts off a few snakes. (and doesn’t drive them forth into our yard!!!)
It is great getting a messy patch under control. I have a way to go but I like staring at the sorted spots!! Next season I would really like to learn how to make wicking beds. I think I’ve been flat out just getting the garden sorted back to ‘normal’ but I am very interested in them as well as straw bale gardens.
oooo- I’d love to spin. I know I don’t have the time or head space just yet but its on my mental ‘to do’ list.
I hope your geriatric duck enjoys her new swimming pool!!! 🙂