Hello!
Yesterday – well, I got up to steady rain so opted to have a nice lazy day.
Pip took one look at the weather and went and buried himself under our doona and didn’t emerge for most of the day!
Today was an improvement. More sun with a few spits of rain.
I was able to get out the rotary hoe and give it a go!!
Yay!
Pretty sure Cousin Jeff overestimated its ability to chew up all the weeds… I did spend some quality time unbinding it haha – that and the red mud clogging things up… but overall…. sweeeeeet!
Will get back into this patch soon
The tarp did a pretty good job! This patch was a lot easier to dig up.
What to plant!!! It does get shaded by the plum trees, but its a nice patch of dirt, so…
I had a little go at the duck yard garden but thought it infinitely more sensible to get this mowed back short first.
Hmmmm I think I have lost this cucumber. Most of the cucumbers on the Hugelkultur bed are doing ok… nothing amazing mind you, but I’d actually left them under their plastic containers for the last few days due to the horrible cold.
Some have pleasingly shown signs of growth!
Zucchinis. I really wish I had a photo of them from the other day. I was a bit worried about them. They were growing, but so pale – more yellow than green. The other day I covered them all completely with the blue ice cream containers. Literally overnight they gained a better colour!! So odd!
So I have continued to cover them at night while the weather is cool and they are looking a lot better.
The pumpkin seedlings are doing fine. They also get covered at night – more because there are a lot of slugs under that mulch!! I’ve removed a lot on my midnight raids so its getting safer.
Whoops… that reminds me. I have to go out and lock the chooks up.
Hang on … brb
Ok – I thought I was missing one but she had decided to sleep on the nest tonight.
I reduced the snail population slightly while I was out too.
Since my nets were empty and the day sunny – I picked a lot of oregano to dry.
It doesn’t even look like I touched the plot!!
Now – to wait!
I’ve been wanting to pick and press flowers too – but I am guessing picking them wet is just asking for them to go mouldy!
So… got in today while the going was good
Sharon just made up a bunch of soaps with flower collages all over them and they look amazing!
She is coming to raid my garden soon
Well… I did make soap yesterday and cut it this evening. Really pleased with it too. For once the colours worked out in real life pretty much what I was aiming for!! I’ll take some photos tomorrow. The swirls are really cool.
Hope everyone had a splendid weekend!
Cheers!
