So excited to get my dirt. haha
Half mushroom compost and half topsoil. Now I can REALLY get going in the new beds!
Three barrow loads filled the shallow bed nicely. I have plans to use this one at my rescheduled gardening workshop on Saturday. (Too scared to look at weather updates haha)
I cleared part of this area out – started stacking wood back under the hothouse annex
This area will get a sensible revamp now that we know better what we are doing and what works best for us.
I forgot to take the ‘after’ shot for this yesterday. Jeff got in and whippersnippered the area. I have a lot of work to do to clear it and get something on top of all the grass to kill it and keep it at bay.
Tomorrow might be my last day as Lamb-Day-Care-Mother.
Frankie only got the one bottle from me today (yes there was a lot of heart rending bleating)
Fiona reckons she should be right for a feed in the morning and one in the late afternoon.
Poor Frankie was left to her own devices a lot today. Sharon and her husband Paul, dropped in. Sharon got in the garden to cuddle Frankie! So cute. Paul is going to take one of the big felled branches that will make great fence straining posts. We’ve decided on a barter of firewood – a different timber to the macrocarpa which is great as we need other stuff to burn it together.
Frankie is pretty good on her lead, so I took her for a walk all around the place. Pip (sitting at back door) was NOT impressed.
I don’t think the chooks were too happy either! I think white chook looked like she was going to jump at and peck Frankie! (The others just ran off, such wooses)
Anyway, we finished the day with a lap around the river (goodbye to another 6kms worth of choccie bikkies and ginger beer)
Then dinner… lots on the plate from our garden or local farms!
T-bone steaks, potato salad (with my bartered bacon and home grown spring onions) some asparagus, lettuce and rocket, corn from the freezer and pickled beetroot. Even the butter on the corn was home made (friend)
Always makes me feel a bit chuffed with a dinner like that!
(And probably means two river laps tomorrow)
So… I am full and I need to take my aching muscles off to bed!
Cheers!
