Hello!!
Today we had a scheduled power outage – and it wasn’t raining so I went out into the garden with hopes of planting the garlic, digging up iris and picking up cow poo.
Sometimes I over estimate what I can actually do.
I worked on the ‘easy’ patch first. I decided to put the early garlic in this one. I hadn’t yet put the blood and bone and lime into it so I just did the usual trick of shoving everything in at once instead of thoughtfully scheduled!
I don’t mind higgledy – piggledy gardening but I do like my garlic to look ordered.
Lovely! That’s the way gardening should be. All done without a fight.
Can’t say as much for the duck yard garden plot!
This is where the white garlic is to live. First I had to sprinkle lime on it.
It was about at this point it started to rain.
So… the camera went away – first because it didn’t need to get wet and secondly because to take any photos would mean a 10 minute hand washing exercise!
Oh my!! What a nightmare. Sticky sticky clay mud and I had to clear the (insert swear word of choice) twitch out too.
My boots gained weight and I gained height. I couldn’t walk on the woodchip path because my boots just picked it up!! 😀
It was pretty awful! BUT I wasn’t going in until I had it all done because I knew I’d just put off returning to it.
After a lot of heavy work, the plot was planted. I did two sections of six rows, so basically I can reach each row fairly easily.
So happy to have it all in. Approximately 250 cloves got planted all up.
Enough??? haha
Little by little I might get this whole yard under control by spring?? Hmmm
Needless to say digging up iris and collecting cow poo got cancelled.
The rain brings out the lovely Macrocarpa wood colours –
I hope your day was slightly less muddy, but equally satisfying!!
Cheers!
