Check out that sky!! Is that a perfect winters day or what?
AND it lasted!
I woke up to it absolutely bucketing down and figured I would be inside all day, so I went back to bed!
When I got up again, I had no excuse to be inside.
Time to clear out another garden bed! The chooks got the silverbeet and were pretty happy about that
I didn’t really feel motivated enough to empty the soil out and line the bottom of the bed – plus I figured the soil would be harboring weeds anyway… so I just lined the top with a thick layer of newspaper and dumped a few bags of seaweed on top of that.
Here’s hoping the weeds will be stopped or slowed and there will be a lot less work when spring comes. I also figure I might just poke a hole in the newspaper to plant seedlings rather than pulling it all up. Will be interesting to see if that helps or hinders!
Another thing I have been itching to do is to prune back the Lion’s Ear
I was really hoping I could turn these into some kind of hedge but have had to wait a couple of seasons while they really filled out before cutting them back.
Lions Ear, or Leonotis leonurus, is a pretty hardy plant. We have one out the front and it self seeds easily. The smaller seedlings are really easy to transplant – and hard to kill! You can also prune it back to the nub and it will spring back in a single season!
Anyway – I think so far so good! Plus I didn’t have to buy anything, just used what I had to make a hedge. Time will tell if it works out.
Took a few wheelbarrows of weeds and clippings away today!
Then I thought I should make a start on the raspberry canes which are looking a bit scraggly.
I only got to one side today. There is a lot more to be done – transplanting, tying back up and weeding.
Its a start!
All in all, not a bad Sundays work!
Hope your day was great too!
Cheers!
