Hello and welcome to the middle of the week!
I took ages to decide what to do today – I should decide the night before then I wouldn’t be swanning about in my PJ’s procrastinating for too much of the morning!
Time to prep a corn patch.
Isn’t that red soil delicious?
I reckon I can fit a lot into this spot. I just have to research further back in my photos to see when I planted the good patch of corn last year. You might recall I did three – the first was ‘meh’ the third was half eaten by cows and the cobs didn’t pollinate…. but the second was brilliant.
Right. Next.
I had ideas to make a garden bed in here for the zucchini’s. I had absolutely zero intention of digging this up at all. Its full of twitch and weeds and I didn’t want to fight it all summer.
So… cardboard!
And who needs to go to the hardware shop for timber when you can throw some logs into a vague square shape??
Time to pull apart my last conditioned bale of straw. Transplanted two of the lettuce and the one parsley.
This bale was the most scrumptious thing! Full of worms and their castings and rotting straw. Made a brilliant first layer for the new bed.
I very much need to make a few more of these conditioned bales up for the future… will keep an eye on the markets so I can stock up as soon as I can!
Topped with the soil/mushroom compost mix and edged with heaps of seaweed to slow weeds even further.
A nice addition to my eclectic bunch of garden beds!!
I didn’t plant the zucchini seedlings today as it was getting late and cool. I reckon best put them in early on a nice day. I am also thinking to stab a hole in the cardboard where I plant each one to give the roots a chance to delve down deeper… not 100% sure.
I took the netting off the garlic now that they are bigger I doubt the birds will nip them in half. I had to weed a lot along my woven fence but now it all looks rather nice.
Jeff painted up this nice bright sign! So I put it out today with eggs and some rhubarb.
Sadly no-one stopped!
Never mind. Sometimes it takes a while for people to remember or get used to things out for sale.
I have a couple of people wanting eggs tomorrow so thats good. We literally have dozens!!
So – fairly productive… hopefully plant some things tomorrow.
Lets see what the weather brings!
Cheers!
