Hello!
We’ve had a couple of nice days in a row… so getting a little more done in the garden
We did have some hail the other day which didn’t impress my poor tomatoes (The chooks probably weren’t happy either!)
My zucchini seedlings were bursting out of their pot…
So I put one lot out into the garden where I hope the weather is fairly nice to them
The tomatoes in the hothouse are about 4x the size of the poor woebegone outside tomatoes…
I’ve even got some flowers!
The lettuce patch … the seedlings I put in the other week are starting to look a little more robust.
Lots of tiny cape gooseberries appearing too… will be soon time for a bit of weeding and mulch
The rocket seeds I planted are all happily up, while their basil neighbours are NOT happy about anything!
I mostly keep each one covered at night but the chopping and changing back to super cold hasn’t helped much.
All the basil I planted out in the hothouse got ringbarked by something and died!!! All of them!! Will try again and make sure I cover them with bottles.
I have enough strawberries now to make a little pot of fresh jam… maybe tomorrow?
so many lush herbs… the oregano is especially fabulous
From garden to one of Rosemary’s awesome vases
Today… a clean up project
Just off the back veranda, fennel, lemonbalm, oregano, raspberry canes (?? no idea why) and general weeds
I have SO MUCH lemon balm everywhere…
So… thats the horror I started with
And here is where I finished up!
Some Portulaca along the front there and the other plants were given to me by my cousin Fiona.. and I can’t tell you what they are!!
I just grabbed some random bits of timber for the front edges and dug them in. Its so good to still have copious amounts of woodchip too
Anyway, will leave you with a few pretties to finish up
Orange calendula (got so many calendula seedlings popping up everywhere!)
Nigella… (Love in a Mist) (Such a pretty name!)
Random snap dragons appearing this year!
Loving my pathway, although its time to pull out the massive borage plant that stops me now walking all the way down the path!
Thoroughly enjoying all the sweet peas!
And bees.. busy everywhere getting right into the heart of the flowers!
Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!
Cheers
