Hello!
How’s the weekend going?
I didn’t get properly moving until early this afternoon. Took a while to get the kinks out haha
Then I got madly enthusiastic and built my new compost bay.
Time for this mess to GO! Celery and parsley becomes an absolute jungle when they go to seed! Plus still getting those purple potatoes that I don’t want popping up everywhere and lets not talk about the weeds.
I’ve decided to reuse the pallets we started using for the raspberries then gave up on.
I want three bays (like I wanted last time but didn’t quite get around to it) but doing one was enough for me this afternoon. Three of the holes were quite easy to dig – one was so hard! In the end I got a steel dropper out to break up the ground!
Layered with cardboard then I moved all the chook-poo hay that Jeff cleaned out of the coop the other day and topped with the remaining coffee grounds and mixed up and watered.
Shall I explain how lovely it was moving dry chook-poo hay in the strong winds today? No? Imaginations working fine? Good.
I should have taken the photo AFTER I mixed it up. That coffee looks like dinosaur spew!! 😀
Anyway… that area is much neater and I can now work on filling that compost bay and hopefully getting on to putting in another two.
Corn update… the first patch still looks anemic and sad, but it does have a number of ears developing, so I am optimistic we will get something edible off it.
Meanwhile, the rabbit/chook ravaged patch is (in my opinion) magnificent and there are plenty of cobs developing too… some stalks have three!!
The third patch is also looking really healthy and glad its a few weeks behind the second patch. Who knows? I might for once get this stagger planting thing right!
I have a huge butternut pumpkin patch – and one butternut pumpkin!!
The little raised patch with the pumpkin in it have really started a good number developing
Happy big beetroot! I am scoffing back heaps of the pickled beetroot nightly!!
Quite exciting to see little capsicums forming!! They seem really pale but maybe its the variety. I can’t remember what the seeds were now!
The tomato lateral patch is rocking along!
No shortage of rhubarb!!
And our potato patch is starting to wind down. I suspect another month before we do a proper harvest. Looking forward to that immensely!
Hope the rest of your weekends are fabulous!
Cheers
I am so jealous! The only thing still growing in my garden is kale. Daydreaming of spring big time! I am planning to try the milk jug greenhouses this year and excited to see if it works well here. I’m tired of starting my seeds indoors and ending up with soil fungus bugs all over my house. They take over and take forever to eradicate. I hope you continue to have a successful garden this year!
lol – I still consider kale the dark side of gardening!! haha – pretty bad of me because I have never actually tried it! Worse than a kid!!
Ew on the fungus bugs in the house!! I’d be trying a different way too!! And the good thing about that is that there is very little outlay to go ahead and try it!
I hope you have some luck with it!! 🙂
Don’t feel bad. I can only eat kale hidden in smoothies or made into salt and vinegar kale chips.
lol!! I have heard that kale chips are rather nice 🙂