Hello!
What a contrast in weather today! I probably got sunburnt!
Glorious!
Didn’t do the gardening I failed to do yesterday…
Jeff got stuck in with the chainsaw and axe and cut a lot more wood.
I moved a lot of it. We also finished off our day with a lap around the river track too!
I might hurt now. 😀
The wood pile still growing. The big logs at the front left for splitting later.
I thought I would start to put together feed bags full of chunky awkward offcuts to set aside then sell as campfire wood once dry.
I filled the big box in the bbq area today – which freed up another pallet to store the bigger wood.
Then of the wood that Jeff split today, the drier stuff I stored on the back veranda –
We don’t have a fire every night now – Pip is not pleased since he gets deprived of the warm towel!!
But we have about run out of dry wood so it was nice to have another small stock ready for those cold snaps
The heavier wood I just stored under the roof of the hothouse.
I did a little bit of gardening… very excited to plant something in the Huggle Monster at last!
My apple cucumber seedlings were not progressing in their pots – time to go out.
I put some of that lovely composted straw down first before topping with a bit of the soil mix and planting the seedlings into it.
They got a bit of a watering and of course, covered up this evening.
I am really hoping I get some success here – I enjoy trying new things and these have been a long time in the making. The idea will be for the seedlings to spread out and cover the mound.
I’ll continue at times to top up the Hugelkultur beds with compost, manure and straw.
Very excited to discover carrot and beetroot seedlings today!
So far so good on the zucchini’s
Still no second potato patch dug, but these guys are looking happy.
Can you see a little splash of blue sitting on top of my snow pea branch trellis? A lovely wren sat there are tweetled his heart out! His crest was all up too! A few hen-wrens came around attracted to his songs! Was really lovely!
My poor neglected wisteria has some flowers!
The plum trees are amazing! Can’t wait!
I am not sick of standing under the fluffy cherry blossoms and enjoying them!
I hope your day has been at least as lovely as mine – just with less aching muscles! haha
Cheers!!
My understanding is that the worse you treat a wisteria the better it looks (as in prune it back to one main branch, etc) My mother-in-law had one for years she let grow like jungle vine and not one flower ever. Someone in the town I live in keeps it well pruned and has a glorious riot of regular blooms all along their porch roof!
It looks like you’ll have lots of canning in your future if all the plums last! Wowsers!
Our poor wisteria are pretty low on the attention list haha 🙁 Oh well. They haven’t died so thats a plus!
Thanks for the information!!
Oh yes… lots of plums.
Hoping to use lots to barter or sell this season!