Hello! Here ends another week – what have people got up their sleeves for the weekend?
I thought I would get a few more plants in the ground – both in the hothouse and the outside gardens.
First I had to make some space in the hothouse by removing the huge flowering broccoli! The chickens enjoyed munching on them very much!
I also had a 7th apple cucumber seedling that was very undersized in the punnet I bought a while back. The others went into the main vegie patch, but I nurtured the runt of the litter in the hothouse for a few weeks. Today it also went into the duck yard vegie patch
About 10 corn didn’t germinate in the first plot I planted, so I replaced them with some new seed today. The rest are sitting up so you can now tell where they are in the plot fairly easily. You can also see all the pesty weeds popping up!! There has been no seaweed on the beach for a while so mulching will have to wait!!
This afternoon we decided to start moving the rocks that Cousin Jeff kindly dropped off to us. I sensibly used a wheel barrow and took the slightly longer route to the new garden area. Jeff on the other hand…
Using high-tech rope, stakes and tent pegs, we outlined the edge of the garden
Jeff went missing – he was taking away my turf and didn’t return. I found him immersed in a new project of regrassing the area under the man-ferns!
Anyway – back to the real job for me…
I really should have quit there – but it was too tempting to just have a go at starting the garden wall.
Ok – so a did a bit more than just start it!
I really had to finish there as besides my back telling me I wasn’t being kind to it, I still had to cover up all the new seedlings and do general ‘Garden Closing Time Stuff’
I will probably leave a small walkway so I can enter the garden without having to scale the wall (yes I am exaggerating… it won’t be that high!) I would like to use newspaper and hay to kill the grass and backfill with topsoil and compost. I am aiming at a bigger herb garden.
We didn’t get inside until about 7.30pm. So it was a late shower/dinner etc. My electric blanket is on and beckoning me! (although I need to put Pip to bed and put some bread on to bake for breakfast)
Hope everyone’s week has ended on a positive note!
Cheers
Your gardens are looking good! Love the rock wall. It’s going to look great when you are done. You are like us in the summer. Seems like we never get inside till 7 or 8 in the evening and then it’s a mad rush for showers, dinner and rest.
Thanks Pam – glad we did what we could this week. The weather has turned again today. Probably a good thing! A rest would be nice! 🙂
I love the long summer evenings. It just feels great to be outside so long!
I love the rock edgings, well done
Your plants are coming along. The last couple of nights I’ve turned on my electric mattress pad just to warm up the sheets. Once in bed I turn it off.
Thanks Linda! I am looking forward to continuing the project – maybe not today, its a bit soggy out there again! 🙂 I don’t sleep with the electric blanket on either but I love crawling into a pre-warmed bed!!