Garden Keeps Me Hopping!

Hi!!
Gosh… this time of year is mad isn’t it? Apart from Christmas, everything is growing and wanting picking… and getting ready for the last markets before Christmas etc.

Theres my wild looking husband who got into the raspberry patch while I was tackling another part of the garden!
We’ve had a bit of a constraint on harvesting as its been raining A LOT! (If you are not a berry grower – picking in the rain kinda guarantees your fruit to get mouldy quick!)

I have another market scheduled tomorrow… Cruise Ship again.
So I have picked more raspberries today and popped them into proper containers to hopefully sell along with some plums.
Oh yes… soap too!
The last cruise ship market was a washout mostly.
The weather was on and off again raining and the wind was horrible… they didn’t put us in the wet weather location either so it was a constant battle… and the cream on top was the cruise ship didnt dock!!! Argh!!
Fingers crossed for a better day tomorrow!

Right… you might have seen this mess before??
And this one?

Pulled two of the brick beds apart, tried to get the twitch out as much as possible and reconfigured the area

I’ve tried to leave more mowing space and also moved it from being completely under the pear tree.

I did a little digging to nestle the first brick layer in

I’ve saved some of the soil to sift and reuse somewhere too

Seriously though… who has time to sift soil???

Since I was too stingy to buy soil and too impatient to collect it etc I thought I’d make this into a straw bale bed for now.
Might take longer for the twitch to get up that far!
Unsure exactly what I will plant in here but I’ll figure out something!

I did sprinkle some blood and bone over it to start the conditioning process… watered it in a bit but I am being a bit frugal on the water as our bore pump is cactus… unlikely we will get the new one in before Christmas shut downs.

Its stopped working all of a sudden. I thought it was just the electrics… which it was but the fellow brought up the pump to check that we weren’t spending heaps on the new electric box if the pump was a week off dying too.
We got seven years out of it so not bad considering we got it online for about $1000 less than what we could buy it locally. We were quite pleased at how long its lasted.
So… we’ve been really happy with all the rain that has kept the garden going and the tanks topped up!

I better get to bed. Silly early start tomorrow!
xxx