Hello!! The day lilies have started to bloom. I really like orange flowers!
Yesterday I washed about 5 dozen eggs and sorted the ones we already had! Jeff hasn’t been a work for a couple of weeks so I’ve not offloaded them as quickly as usual. Happily, both Ruby and another friend, Shirley needed 2 dozen each. No probs.
I also grabbed them some rhubarb from the garden as well.
I had to give Tentacular another haircut. It was getting harder to get into the hothouse. Plus the extra bits I took off actually did help a little with the light!! I still can’t get over how mad this plant is!
I decided to get in and clear things out a bit – get rid of the table and put some more things in the dirt before the season disappeared on me.
I found some spare timber that I could line my basil strip with – I think it makes it look a bit neater.
Then I optimistically planted two rock melon plants and a watermelon in the corner.
Also popped in three more capsicums that were doing so well in their pots I thought they deserved to stretch their legs in real soil.
Its all I can sensibly fit in here this season. If the passionfruit do the right thing then it will be totally worth it!
Anyway, moving right along. Time to transform that second garlic patch into a tomato patch!
I had a number of potted tomatoes overdue for transplanting not to mention umpteen self seeded ones still needing a home.
I was a bit slack about the soil prep, but each plant got a generous amount of mushroom compost around its base
And to be honest… I have to now quit with the tomatoes. I think I have around 70 planted. Probably enough.
Despite the earlier sunshine, by this time I was getting steadily rained upon! But I was into it and wanted to finish the jobs that I had had on my mind. I put some snail bait down around the corn just to make life easy and got some netting up. I am really hoping that this patch won’t get ravaged by rabbits, possums or chooks! And argh on the chooks. The stupid broody one (Who I had locked out of the coop) got straight in here when I was on the other side as the wind blew the unlatched gate open (I was out for, you know, five minutes!!)
She. Does. Not. Herd.
I have never met a stupider chook. She proceeded to trample everything in her bid to avoid me and somehow avoid going in any direction that was even remotely close to the gate!! Even running towards me at times when I was being extremely clear about where I wanted her to go! In the end I tackled her after she flew into the fence in a bit of a panic. We were both rather unimpressed!
At least the corn shoots were safe from this Little Incident.
I am loving fresh food on the dinner plate every night! I pulled up a few more baby carrots, lettuce, snow peas and got pretty muddy in my search for some new potatoes!
It was all pretty good!
After a much needed shower I headed into town with Megumi to the supermarket. I had about $60 to spend from my rewards card and I wanted to do some frivolous shopping (like something that included Camembert cheese and whatnot)
It was pretty wild in the Wynyard supermarket! Pretty sure thats why I feel extra tired tonight!! 😀
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
Cheers
