Hello! Hope your week has started well!
One of the strawberry patches has responded well to my TLC and is now producing some fruit!
Last major pressing garden job done. The raspberries are now netted. Actually it was a slick and easy job! The net just slides over with the two of us on either end!
Once weighted down, I got in there and gave the patch a feeding, mulched then put the water on.
Mind you – its raining out there now! haha
I am actually having to net everything in sight! The blackbirds are driving me mad – digging up everything! Half my butternut pumpkins were uprooted while they dug out all the dirt looking for bugs!!
Not impressed!
They started on the cucumber bed too – like they weren’t struggling enough! So that got netted as well to give them a fighting chance.
Garlic looking good.
The outside snow peas have started to flower!
I took the time this afternoon to fill another bed in the new section.
I’ve put in 4 cape gooseberries, marigolds, some purple lettuce seedlings and sprinkled some portulaca seeds.
Then I decided on a spot for some of the sunflower seedlings I grew as an experiment in the toilet rolls.
I want to grow more flowering plants in the straw section, but have to keep in mind that I still need to walk into the area to access the spiral and the other side of the garden beds
Pretty pleased with how this is now looking. (This side anyway.)
Enjoying having lovely fresh salads most nights!
And on the soaping front…
Experimenting with red. Its been hard to get the colour right. Before I got more orange. The mixture was a bit too diluted.
This one I added some black into the red – I like the way it bled out from dark to red.
Plus the patterns turned out great!
(This is English Rose)
(I see a fire-demon haha)
And because I sold out of the Applejack Peel fragrance soap, I whipped up another batch.
I haven’t cut it yet. I am looking forward to doing that tomorrow sometime!
Yesterday I met up with a local fellow who wanted some photos done for his album and bio etc.
It was a really nice afternoon. He brought his ‘Studio Assistant’ (Daughter) who got into a few photos too just for the fun of it!
So far I processed a few shots for him and sent them through and he was really happy!
I am also working on my cousins family photos – off to see about printing them tomorrow and organising some framing.
AND my calendars arrived – a week earlier than promised! Yay.
So now to deliver/post/organise all those. Its great they came in early – I can take any extras I have to the market on Friday.
So – keeping busy as usual!
Hope you are all having a fabulous day!
Cheers
Hello Lisa,
Your garden has me very jealous! Strawberries in November, pretty cool. Our weather here is cold, foggy and miserable. It’s supposed to be clear for Thanksgiving though. Looks like your garden will provide part of your feast on Thursday, keep up the good work. I sympathize with your bird problem. Blue jays stole all but 3 of my sun flower seeds last spring. They are smart, I think they watch where I plant, wait until my back is turned and go for the seeds! Little stinkers.
It is nice to have the sweet strawberries again!
Yes! The birds def. know where the good stuff is! Little rotters lol
I hope your weather clears up and you have a lovely Thanksgiving! We don’t do any sort of Thanksgiving in Australia Like the US or Canada – basically its a clear run up until Christmas! Boxing Day is the big sales day (I always thought that a bit weird – Nice to be settled down after the work putting Christmas together – the last thing I could imagine would be mixing it up with the crowds in frantic shopping!!) I know Black Friday is pretty huge in the US?