Oh dear. The year is nearly done!
I am still running about doing… stuff! The days just keep disappearing on me
Today I intended to make lots of soap.
Somehow… I ended up in the garden
(Above Gympie in her nest as she is broody at the moment!)(The chooks got a spring clean, complete with lemon balm arrangements!)
The raspberries got netted! They still need feeding and mulching. Might do that tomorrow?? Hmmmm
A couple more beds got cleared out…
then we got creative…
One of my friends has bamboo!! So we went and cut down a heap and brought back to use in the yard.
This is my future tomato patch. I want to hang stretchy ties from the top and wind around plants if and when they grow instead of staking them
Another bit of plot tidying… Followed by more creativeness
This is meant to be a trellis for the apple cucumbers
And here is a bit of reality… sob
Anyway, I am ignoring those for a little longer…
Overall things are taking shape.
Laterals ready to go!
Today, my soap day that wasn’t, I started planting… stuff.
Apple cucumbers on the right and Egyptian walking onions on left.
Jude gave me these excellent shelter tunnels so I will keep some new seedlings under wraps for a while.
Tomatoes… and basil under the tunnels
Jeff has ice cream eating issues and I have hoarding issues.
Overall for the garden that is sometimes a good thing!
Shelters for the tomatoes because I am too lazy and unorganised to harden them off properly.
Another great thing about working for Jude, is that I seem to get a lot of plants!!
I put in the garlic she gave me (creole I think) Bit late in the season but its nice to have a different variety. And also oca. I have had these years ago but lost them somehow. They are a root vegetable and taste amazing baked with garlic salt….
And yep… temp fencing as I have one determined chicken and some random bunnies.
Since I found the wire and had all the stuff out, I made cages for the zucchinis too. They need to not be in their feed bag shelters anymore, but would hate to lose them to the chook or the bunnies at this point. Now they can get the full sun and be a bit protected too.
The other smaller plants got re covered before I went in tonight.
The gates also got baby bunny proofed!
And up comes the rocket! Mmmmm
(The carrots next door haven’t popped up yet)
Bit of a lame snap but… beetroot up but its scattered with self seeded carrots!!!
Now I am in a quandary about whether to pull up the carrots or leave them
On the other side of this plot is plenty of carrots so I am leaning towards clearing out everything except the beetroot…
Anyway, the days have been nicer recently… we went through a week of mad wind and cold. As Tassie is known to do….
Hopefully things will start growing well!
Have a lovely weekend! (Whats left of it)
xx
(Peas below!)
