In the Garden

Hi!
Its been a busy few days… workshop, hiking, gardening at Judes and finally today in my own garden!

I somehow kept managing not to get back to the hothouse to plants seedlings!

A nice sturdy little tomato has popped up all by itself!!

I had 4 other more established tomato seedlings to go in and a punnet of lettuce

I decided against topping up the soil in the beds and have built up this area with straw… and made nests of soil and compost

I also put some seedlings between the tomatoes in the hope I can get some leaves off them before the tomatoes do their usual out of control jungle thing because I am slack and never prune them back.

The little parsel/parcel?? plant Jaana gave me. Its been thriving in its pot. Time for it to go into the garden bed. Thought I might as well leave it in the hothouse.

I forgot to go back and plant some cucumber seeds but that wont take long once I remember.
It was so convenient to turn on the tap and let the new watering system do its thing! (Thanks Dad xx)

Then… I planned to plant the sugar snap peas.

They apparently don’t climb too high so I amused myself by building a little trellis for them

I love how there is just so much usable ‘stuff’ around here to do this kind of thing.

I used passionfruit vines and vines from the native black pea.

Voila!
And if they want to grow higher I can add more.
I decided not to plant the seedlings out as the weather was turning ugly and thought it would be mean to put them out.
Good choice. Right now its blowing a gale and raining a lot.
Not that warm either!
Still… its all ready for when the weather behaves.

I meant to go inside at that point but got distracted and started clearing up this area

Its a bit of a feral mess!

I didn’t get far but I did pull out a lot of stuff in a short period of time.

The sawdust mulch really kept a lot of the weeds at bay.

There is a path in there somewhere.
In front of the rosemary there is basil mint gone bonkers!
I suppose its more interesting than having other weeds take over. Smells amazing even if it looks disastrous!

Granny Bonnet self seeded

I need to ask Cousin Fiona what this is again as I got it from her garden and I’ve forgotten. I only noticed it out in flower today! So unusual!

Anyway, all bits of me ache so I am going to take myself off to bed!
Hope everyone is doing well
xxx