We put another rather large day in the garden today… those photos on hold until tomorrow
These were from the day before yesterday.
I did some soil sieving of the soil I got from Sharons… It was heading to top up a plot for tomato plants so I wanted all the debris out
Saved!! No worm mincemeat…
There is something really pleasing and satisfying about this!!!
A couple of barrow loads of that and some home made compost and I was able to transplant some self seeded tomatoes into their new home.
The corn!! Finally got to the corn!
Weeding the ever persistent twitch
And found these:
Honestly… how can you dig a patch a million times and STILL find stuff like this?? Those bolts aren’t small!!
Anyway, in goes the corn.
And a good watering followed
Loving the potato patch and cant wait to be feasting daily on new potatoes again
On to the hothouse!
Seedlings need a home
These were some of the self seeded tomatoes that I planted in the new plot.
I really wanted my chillies in the soil
And I am retrying the luffa so I can use it in my soapmaking.
(I’ve left the snow peas in… they will die off as the luffa grow. I’ve also mixed in my compost to help them along.)
And then to tackle Tentacular!!
I didn’t prune him at the end of last season as the season went so long… now out of control!
So I started hauling off vines and chopping into him. He was full of snails!! Also too much vine… the fruit was small so far and lots of branches stunted and squashed.
I’d taken out three massive armfuls of vines and ripping out some more when I see a black form slithering up into the last bit of the foliage left in the corner!!
TIGER SNAKE!!
Fan-bloody-tastic!!
How long have I blithely been working with this creature???
With no gloves and dodgy shoes?? (Crocs haha)
Bring Jeff in to join the fun. Poking about with stick. Snakey keeping pretty quiet up there.
My working speed dropped off considerably as I cut Tentacular back a lot more than intended.
I guess that explains the drop in the mouse population.
(Turns out its living in there. Saw it today through the plastic as I was mowing. Slithered off the table down and out the door and under the pallets in the wood pile area. It probably thinks its my buddy. I reckon its been there a good long while. Not too big (yet) less than a metre I’d say)
Sooo… we did a lot more cleaning up of debris and chopping stuff back
The side garden has gone from this (above) to this (below)
Of course with moving all the weeds etc the gates were open a bit so the opportunistic chooks had a lovely time escaping out of their end of the yard!
So… bit by bit we are getting through the yard and the gardens!!
Have a lovely day everyone!
Cheers
(Jeff and Flossie-Veloci)
