Yesterday was a non-raining day, so we took Ruby’s raised garden bed down to her place, then filled the trailer with a scoop of topsoil on our way home.
Oh my! Not thinking about the weight of sodden wet soil – you know, since its been raining! 😀
So while Jeff got to ride his fun mower, I got to sort out my raised garden bed.
I hit a slight snag – access to the vegie patch via wheelbarrow doesn’t work… gates too small and we wired up the bottom one anyway because I didn’t think I needed it, to stop chickens getting in!
So, after hauling 5 or 6 buckets of sodden soil down the yard and over a fence, I got a bit over it. So at least I had taken a bit of pressure off the tyres, and drove the car down the back and did some masterful maneuvering between the plum trees to get the trailer closer to my garden bed.
While I was happy to see the garden bed full, I was equally happy to see the trailer empty.
Now I have to decide what to put in it!
And check out my little heirloom tomatoes!
I am also excited to see flowers appearing on the tomatoes that are in the hothouse!
I think I need to get a small punnet of tomatoes to just get some in the outside garden going now as well.
The raspberries are slowly coming along and greening up. Really itching to get in here to weed & feed & mulch!
If anyone was wondering how much space we use for our vegetable garden, we actually got out the tape measure to see.
The main patch is 30ft X 38ft (9X11mt)
The raspberry patch is two rows of canes of 20ft each (6mt)
The new space in the ‘duck yard’ is going to be approx 24ft x 20ft (7X6mt)
We also have the separate raised garden bed behind the hothouse, the strawberry patch, the herb garden and of course the hothouse!
Should keep us fed!
Pretty things are slowly appearing everywhere!
Rain is back tomorrow, but I guess I can put the fire on and finish Ruby’s party photos and take it easy! I helped out a friend on her market stall today – she had fresh scones and cakes!
I earned myself $20 & 13 scones! lol. That takes my Texas Fund up to $130.20!! Don’t think the scones will help though! 😀
Have a fabulous weekend everyone!
Thank you for your wonderful blog and sharing your life with the world. I am a new subscriber, living in north central Massachusetts, and have been enjoying your beautiful archived photos and the details of your life….way down under! I actually looked through your site to find some sort of general information about you and your husband …..where you are from originally, etc., but didn’t see it….perhaps I missed something.
Hello! Thank-you so much for subscribing! I like it when people tell me where they are from. I go and quickly check on the map to see (Maybe I should do a pinboard map of readers locations just for the fun of it!! 🙂 My geography is pretty good, but I haven’t studied specific states of the US in a long time. Google is awesome! lol
Anyway, glad you are enjoying!
No – I haven’t really written much background info on us – except the blurb at the bottom of posts about being married to a nurse and having a Siamese cat! 🙂
I’ll work that into a post someday – when its raining and I am being boring! lol Basically tho, I grew up in Albury NSW, I lived in Japan for a number of years, met my now-husband Jeff online (a Canadian nursing at the time in San Diego). We lived in Canberra for 10 years before escaping to Tassie! 😀 There !! Us in a very small nutshell! 🙂
Thanks heaps for writing! Cheers!
I love reading all about your adventures on your blog & via Facebook. I live in Simonton, Tx (west of Houston) on 2.5 acres. We have a little farm with lots of animals & a garden. I love reading about Ruby & her stories every Tuesday! She reminds me a lot of my grandma. She was a nurse & also loves to garden.
Keep the stories & pictures coming!
Elaine
Hi Elaine! Thank-you for writing! Glad you are enjoying the stories and whats happening in Tassie! You have a nice parcel of land to play with!! It’s a wonderful lifestyle isn’t it!!?? Nurses are special! I bet you have great memories of your grandma!I am hoping to catch up with Ruby tomorrow and get something happening for Ruby Tuesday – weather is still rather appalling so I figure it will be more of a cuppa and catch up than a gardening trip!!
Cheers!!