Hello!
Picked a few things for the slow cooked beef casserole I did for dinner. Mostly herbs and celery! (I did have some pre cooked tomatoes and veggies I had leftover from last season, so that was nice)
I spent a bit of the morning doing kitchen stuff, then went shopping and also picked up my new load of mushroom compost! Time to get some more garden beds happening. I was a bit sad to pull the potatoes out of here… I gave one a new home… dunno if it will take or not but I am sure I will soon see!!
Also found a few potatoes, but I am thinking they are not new…
Funny and a little bit annoying as I dug this plot to an inch of its life looking for potatoes!! How could I have possibly missed all these???
Even though the tomato seedlings that I am trying to grow are still tiny, (they really seem to have stagnated in their pots) I decided to plant them out and see how they go. Half the plot are yellow tomatoes and the other half beefsteak.
I might have crowded the yellow tomatoes, but we will see how they all go.
As I am sitting here (well past midnight) I hear rain beginning to fall!! It was cloudy all day but not cold. We didn’t even light the fire tonight!
Anyway, covered up all the tiny tomatoes and hope they survive.
This was going to be for beans. Then I thought it was too good so I changed my mind. More tomatoes! Jeff mowed today so I outlined the whole narrow area with more newspaper and topped with grass clippings. Trying to keep the weeds down. Or at least away from my garden.
I put one of the lengths of timber on the lower side to help stop runoff of the dirt. I added more soil from one of the other gardens and topped it off with the mushroom compost. Then I dug up a number of self seeded tomatoes and planted them in.
Covered – um… I only just noticed I missed one!!!
Then put in a chook-resistant barrier. (Hopefully)
The two poles at either end of this plot should be handy for when it comes to rigging up something to stake tomatoes to.
Jeff got well into this spot with weeding today. I want to use it to plant my second lot of corn. The first lot is pretty slow. But then again, it hasn’t been that warm over the past couple of weeks!
Eep. Poor neglected raspberries. At least there are a lot of flowers. I made a bit of a start with them, I am hand weeding in the middle as I wanted to save some of the canes that are popping up everywhere!
Still waiting for that big dump of seaweed so I can get in and mulch the living daylights out of it all.
I ran clothes line wire down both sides to give them a bit of support in the wind.
Lots of flowers and even fruit starting to show.
This makes me both happy and slightly panicky as we have to get on to the whole netting business!! (you know, after the fence is done)
Speaking of fruit… cherry plums everywhere!!
I might have to say I still smell like mushroom compost! Happily Jeff is already sleeping so maybe he won’t notice and I won’t get kicked out of bed haha (Really… I did shower and scrub a LOT)
Have a wonderful day!
Cheers!
