Hello!
How is your week going?
The cherry blossom has started fluffing out its flowers! In for a pretty few weeks ahead.
Time to make another plot. Just taking out bite sized pieces to work on otherwise I will just not get anything done or planted.
(Check out the size of that rhubarb already!!!)
This little staked out section I earmarked for some corn. Naturally I want a lot more than this, but it seemed like a good start.
As well as the weeds and leftover Macrocarpa branches and seeds, I dug up a lot of parsley. In the past it hasn’t transplanted happily… but I might try. I don’t know why. I have more parsley than you can point a stick at!
And a lot of worms!!
I got a nice little spot cleared, made some rows and got my seed.
The advantage of breaking it up into sections is that I will have done ‘stagger planting’ Yay me!
I also took out the crushed runner bean trellis. Soon I need to be pulling up all the fencing so we can start again. Don’t know why I have the fences anyway. I spent most of the day throwing chooks back over it. And one is a bit bitey and drew blood from my arm!! Charming creature! Amazing how strong their beaks are! She was probably the one that bit me the other night when I had to go find her. I now have chook-bruises!!
Ahhhh the perils of country living! Its not all sunshine and raspberry jam you know…
Pulled a bucket full of twitch back out of this plot! Then raked all the soil up one end as much as possible. Planning to weed and move the cleaned soil from the crushed bed to top this one and the other raised bed up.
I think I’d like to put the beetroot and carrots in here. The seeds need to go in soon and since this bed is nearly ready… seems like a sound plan.
Back in the hothouse, the zucchini and cucumbers are looking fine!
I even have a tomato up!
I’ve not grown cumin before – but its spindly little sprouts have appeared.
Some other things have started to show but I failed to get decent photos.
Some basil, watermelon, capsicum… its nice to see things appearing.
Not long before some of my lettuce will be able to go out!
Very excited to see a LOT of passionfruit flowers!! I will be ecstatic if I get heaps of fruit this season! Plus the flowers are so pretty when they bloom.
The Geum are starting to flower too so it will be looking very cute and cottage garden around here.
I had my stall out the front again.
Good news: Sales were up. $10 today.
Average news: Just sold two dozen eggs to the same fellow so no seedlings sold. 🙁 Oh well…
Hope your day was fabulous! Time for bed for me!
Cheers
