Hello!!!
I slipped out to Bunnings today before donning the smelly gardening gear to burn more branches.
I had to replace the broccoli before the weather really takes a nose dive and also got all keen about onions and leek.
Leeks are scandalously expensive in the shops – Seemed sensible to give them another go since I had free garden beds
I just dug some trenches and lay them down, then covered the roots. I’ve been assured they will sit themselves up. I put in the brown onion and the leeks in here. Yet to decide where the white onions will go.
Even after the rainstorm last night and not getting to the garden until early afternoon – there was still action in the firepit!
So in between doing garden stuff, I kept piling up branches on the fire. I do love a fire!! (Should have gotten myself some marshmallows!!)
While the netting has thwarted the cabbage moth – I didn’t get back to rescue my broccoli and all but one were decimated!
This time I made some slug shields – hopefully they’ll get a chance to get bigger and tougher before getting chewed on again.
I had three spare so I popped them in one of the prepped stawbales
Will be interesting to see how they go.
They also got slug shields
I wish I could have captured the amazing compost steam rising!! Its just too hard to dig and hold the camera AND click all at the right time.
The nerdy gardener in me is super excited about how much heat there is in this at the moment!
The pumpkin vines were pretty much dead… so decided to pick them today.
I might have Queensland Blues – not sure. That other one? Clueless
They’ll be interesting to cut into to see how they look and taste.
Capsicum – such pretty colours!
Foraged through the tomato plants – which are starting to look very woebegone! Still being able to pick plenty of tomatoes though.
Hopefully will get back out to my fire tomorrow – and if Jeff stays up long enough we might get to play with the chipper!!
Hope your week is going along fabulously!
Cheers
