Garden Update

Hello!
We’ve managed to have a couple of decent days in a row – apart from the wind not really letting up much!

The lettuce patch is going along pretty well… Adding a few new things in so they will come along as we raid the more developed plants. I think there are some spinach babies – I was given the seedlings and not sure. 🙂

The herb spiral is slowly looking a bit better. Still no sign of the chives. Someone mentioned that sometimes the seeds can take an EON to appear. Might have to pry open my purse and buy some seedlings haha

A determined self seeded tomato plant looking quite good – growing right on the outside of one of the new garden beds!!

So excited to see little passionfruit making a start!

My basil that I started from seed is now looking rather good! They were looking a bit sad for a while. Clearly enjoying the better weather too.

The other day we made a good start on the raspberries (LONG overdue job) Restringing their supports and weeding.

Lots of fruit forming – so I am in a rush to finish this and get it netted!!
I did a bit more clearing of the grass along the strip yesterday – along with several ‘helpers’ (if you call sticking their beaks into the area that I work in and randomly pooing close by ‘helpful’)

We sadly had to dispatch one of our girls the other day. She had been crook for a while and just wasn’t coming good. The writing was on the wall. We hate to let them linger but its a horrible job – one we don’t ‘get used to’
Poor chook! I console myself knowing she had a good life and lots of good food.

I am having a real issue with blackbirds digging up the garden beds. I might have to go get more netting.
I’d love to net the entire garden but… lets just say I won’t mention another Great Idea Project to Jeff just for now.
Anyway, my beetroot have recovered from their pruning by birds and the carrots are also sitting up well.

Some potato flowers! Not from the patch… just random ones growing about the place! I swear they are like weeds!

Speaking of potatoes… the second patch has potatoes popping up so thats encouraging!

First leek and a brown onion!
I could have left the onion longer but was keen to try!!
They both went into a stirfry!

Some of my little baby tomatoes were going quite well… so I bit the bullet and decided to put some in the ground.
Prepared a couple of beds..

Out came the old silverbeet (Happy chooks having a feast) and in went the tomatoes. (As well as one of the laterals that looks very woebegone. Will be interesting to see if it bounces back ok)

The bigger L shaped patch that had all the mad rocket in it was cleared and replanted with some little tomatoes.
They are so tiny I had to circle them in red to show you where they were. These are ‘Yellow Pear’. I hope they survive.

The spring onion are doing fine at the sides and I left in a few young rocket plants.

What I was very keen to do was put the butternut pumpkins into the hugelkultur beds… which i did.
Today a LOT of the dirt and straw has been kicked away by the birds.
I’ll refill it soon and throw a net over it while the plants are trying to get established.

I also gave the zucchinis a bit more soil – the original gets a bit dry with the wind and the birds are kicking off the mulch.
I noticed tonight they have managed to dig holes in this already!!!
Will be on a netting mission this week

Well – that rounds things up a bit. Still feel well behind the 8 ball when it comes to being on top of stuff, but I have my fingers crossed for the weather to steadily improve which will please the plants. (And me. Oh very much so me!!!)

I’ve been out tonight to set up a stall for a market tomorrow morning.
I am even going to try to remember to take my camera so I can get a snap of all the soaps set up.
One of the local churches is having a fete – lots of different stalls. Hopefully there will be a few Christmas shoppers out!

Better aim for an early night so my brain is ready to add up all the $$ haha
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
Cheers