Hi!! Here we are mid week. Thought the weather might be a bit dodgy this morning but it turned out pretty nice!
Got a lot of planting done.
I got 50 potatoes planted in here! I promptly mulched because I don’t want those awful weeds to come rampaging straight back.
Jeff did a lot of work along the fence, pulled back the rebar and guttering (?) and got all the big weeds out that were impossible to get to.
The chooks had a splendid time ‘helping’
See all the logs of wood? Jeff was filling in some holes with dirt and as fast as he filled them, the girls dug them out with delight!
There might have been a few swear words involved haha
Finally finished filling this little bed. Planted it with my collected seeds. Its got sweet pea up the back – with the idea for them to climb the fence.
Marigolds down each side and down the middle sections.
Rocket all along the front and sunflowers in the midde.
Hope that all turns out well!
Now… to wait!
The garden beds that have had the conditioned straw in them have lovely soil… so I have high hopes.
Planted out the Golden Nugget pumpkins. (Small and yellow ones I think – first time to grow)
And in the interests of having more pesto than one can point a stick at… more basil.
Of course all the new seedlings were tucked up in their bottles for the night
Mulched the zucchinis
Oh – I also planted some nasturtiums in the big Hugelkultur bed. Hopefully soon the butternut pumpkins will be ready to go out there too.
More rocket seeds developing and the bees love this patch.
Dill!! In the herb spiral!! Very exciting times!
The promise of a strawberry!
Liliums about to flower I think!
Anyway, got a big day planned tomorrow so better scoot off to bed.
Cheers!
Sunflowers in a raised bed, oh my! Hope you have a better experience than I did. When my sunflowers got to a certain height, they killed everything below. When talking, really complaining, was told that they put out toxins similar to Walnut tree roots. Sure hope this info is wrong, for your sake.
Really interesting! I’d not heard that before – then again… my knowledge on flowering plants is very limited! Thank-you! I will look into that and move them if I find it is indeed the case and dig up a new area for them instead! Gardening! One big ongoing experiment!! Thanks a bundle for letting me know! I’ll let you know what I find.