Category: Garden

See whats missing here??
Oh yes – my other croc! That little devil must have returned last night and nicked it!!! Did quite the walk around today and could not find it. Mind you, by now its probably chewed to bits.
My spare crocs are inside tonight!

Anyway…

I moved the potting table out of the hothouse so I could get the chillies in the ground

A job that was continually interrupted with moving tomatoes out. There are so many growing in the hothouse which will make things crowded and painful, so I rehomed or potted a lot up today

A lot were probably too big to move, but I have given it a go anyway

I pretty much dug little trenches for the bigger plants and lay a lot of stem under the dirt

I remembered that I had started weeding the area in front of the snow peas… another space to plant tomatoes

They started pretty weepy and wilted but most were perking up by the end of the day

This ‘finding places’ for tomatoes drives me crazy. Next season I am going to pre prepare a huge area and keep them all together.

Anyway, the chillies finally got put in.

I think a lot of these plants should go out the front on my stall. Just waiting for them to all perk up and have a few other things for sale so the tables are interesting enough when people stop by. Probably some raspberries would do the trick!

Enjoy your day!
Cheers!

Hello!
Its a good day when you underestimate the size container needed to pick your raspberries! Not much off a kilo here! The local supermarket has them on sale at $34/kg!! Leading up to Christmas I have seen them as high as $54/kg which is daylight robbery.
Just glad we have plenty of our own to enjoy.

Plenty coming along on the canes as well!

I also found some baby butternut pumpkins!!
And like other adventurous toddlers running off … a few plants were making their escape into the neighbours paddock!

I’ve redirected them and also spent some time mulching most of the garden in this area.
I will possibly give up on the watermelons though… maybe give them another week or two to see if they look like bouncing back.
I still think the tomatoes will be fine.

A few basket fulls of rose petals. Not sure what I will do with them… if anything. But they are pretty.

With a bit of a shock I realise its a week until Christmas. I am even less prepared this year than last!
I did, however, actually send out a card today.
I am not sure if Jeff will be working, but one or both of us will be planning on trotting down to Rubys for a quiet Christmas Lunch – I’ll be making a pavlova and some home made custard and Ruby will be baking something!
Sounds like a grand plan to me!
I hope most of you have something wonderful planned for the festive season.
Whats tradition in your household?
Of course being in summer, an older tradition when we headed back to our home town for Christmas, was to eat a nice big lunch, hang out with family and open presents at some point.
Later in the evening all the ‘kids’ – neighbourhood crew etc (now slightly older) would gather up leftovers and meet down at the weir to swim, catch up and eat more. Fantastic summer evenings.

The day lilies are blooming and I was greeted this morning by the yellow lilium! Nice start to the day!

Hope your week has started well!

Cheers

This is pretty much what we came home to in the duck yard garden. Things slightly out of control.
We took time this afternoon to make a dent in that.

Bit by bit it was getting done

Somehow my marigolds have survived back here!

Still digging up treasures!

The chooks were a bit excited to get in and have a dig… I had to keep stopping them from making a bee-line to my beetroot plants though, the little snots.

Hope your weekend has started fantastically!

Cheers

Hi there!
Another warm beautiful day here in Tasmania! Bit of a change from the 6 weeks of rain we had prior to leaving the country!
Jeff and I dived back into the garden today and did a mammoth effort in clearing weeds. I think we were out there for about 6 hours straight! I am creaking again tonight!

Not so many photos. But we put a decent dent in the weed (notably twitch) population and build up the dead weed pile a bit higher!

Once this part is properly done I will plant a row of tomatoes up the fenceline – got plenty of little tomatoes popping up all over that need a home.

Some of the young self seeded potatoes that I had to dig out (just too entangled in twitch and weeds) produced some nice little new potatoes. Looking forward to seeing these on the dinner table tomorrow night!

All up we got a fair bit done – still a number of hours work left in here. No wonder no-one has put their hand up to come and visit us at the moment!

Cheers!

Hello! How was your Sunday?
We knocked over that side garden job today!
This was the day before yesterday:

This was yesterday:

And (drum roll) this was today:

I pretty much work without gloves so my hands are cactus tonight! But its a lot better – no longer a snake haven or a potential fire risk. We still need to cut back some vines and clear out the gutters on that side… but that can be done another day.
We treated ourselves to a few glasses of strawberry milkshakes! Great way to finish the afternoon.

Rounded up the day with the watering and picked a few things for the dinner table.
Hope your weekend was fabulous!

Cheers!

Hi there!
I come and go with momentum – I figure I was more tired after the travelling than I thought. Plus I have a cold which started on the way home (not as bad as Jeff had it but a nuisance just the same)

Anyway, in the last 24 hours I have not only done gardening stuff but also chatted to the fellow that was the architect of Biosphere 2, exchanged emails with a fellow that works at NASA and spoke for a while with an exhibiting artist in Florida.
All one of those normal/weird things that happen in my life!
Once I have finished this side project of mine that I fell into by accident, I will tell you all about it!

Two broody chooks in purgatory! I can’t tell you how unimpressed they are to be locked into the Trailer Of Shame haha
They have escaped, so now we’ve got it covered and netted. I keep telling them to be happy we are not adopting the local older persons method of making broody chooks forget about their broodiness… which entails putting them in a bag and hanging them on the clothesline!!!! (Apparently that makes them forget about it pretty quick)

Oh and hello nightmare. Front/side garden. Where does one start?
And really… no idea what to do with this area. It gets battered by wind, so is not a good place to grow much (except clearly the weeds). Putting down stone/woodchip would be a waste of time because of the rubbish the next door gum trees continually shed on it.
We just need to clear it up again to reduce snake habitat, fire hazards etc.

Thats my lame effort start!

At least this bit looks improved:

This is Jeffs before and after:

Took Pip on a walk to see what flowers were worth taking a snap of.

Dont ask me… I don’t know. Cool and weird though isn’t it? Was given to us by an elderly lady aaaaages ago and it has lived in a bucket of water since. We really need to decide where to give it its forever home

While I wasn’t looking my liliums all started to bloom!

Hope everybodys weekends are going along beautifully!

Cheers!