Hello!
We started the weekend well with clear sunny blue skies.
I was dumb enough to put washing out. Haha – They got dried a reasonable way before I had to rescue it!
Pallet resting place for pumpkins…
Look at this horror!!
Lets look a little closer –
Time to rip EVERYTHING out!!
This whole area I am keen to revamp. I am just not sure how.
First I will get out all the main weeds and plants, then remove the concrete edging and rocks that surrounded the strawberry patch etc. Get a nice big blank slate.
Can anyone give me a hint why I get so many self seeded tomatoes each season??
The tomato laterals I am trying to get to grow aren’t doing much, but I found these in the strawberry patch so thought I would rescue them and pop them in the hothouse and see how they respond.
I buried them deep and mostly on their sides to see if they would put down more roots and then watered them in with some of my newly collected worm wee
Hopefully they will sit up ok.
I didn’t get through it all of course. But it was a pretty good start. The other side is a bit more horrible with the sorrel and slows me down digging up the strawberry plants.
Jeff did a lot of mowing and whippersnippering and I barrowed the grass clippings to places in need.
I want to bring in new stock when it comes to the strawberries… maybe use a few of the old. I put an ad on the local facebook community page offering 10 plants for $3
So far I have requests for 80 plants! Yipes. Better get moving tomorrow morning and sort out what I have before rashly saying yes to any more!
Once everything is gone I think I’ll make a start by collecting some cardboard and covering the whole area to start to kill the grass and weeds – with the blank slate I should be able to envision the area more clearly.
Mostly I want flowers, but I am dead-keen on a rocky herb spiral and I need to get my strawberry patch back in here as well as they really love that position.
Perhaps some quality time with a tape measure, pencil and paper??
Hope your weekend has started great too!
Cheers!
Now that was a proper bed of weeds! Loved it!! 🙂
haha – its like a community service – here is my mess, now you can feel better about your gardens!!