Surprise Iris! How nice!!
So, today turned out reasonably nice weather wise – only a few sprinkles of rain now and again…
I spent a fair bit of prep time this time, marking out the rows and getting all my potatoes in evenly spaced. I used tomato stakes to get the lines straight and an old broken shovel to poke in the holes
Haha – turn my back for a minute and some creature is already trying to make off with a potato!!
I ran out of the seed potatoes but had a good stash of ours from last season, so the last 20 or so could be planted
I think it looked rather neat by the end – very satisfying!
I planted 99 and the bit of green is a self seeded potato that I didn’t have the heart to pull out as its growing so nicely. So… an even 100 in!
Moving along to no-so-neat!!
Yipes… my poor purple garlic!! This is what happens when I net… out of sight out of mind. Amazing that we dug this plot several times and STILL missed a lot of potatoes. Not just little ones either!
I am sure they feel much better about life now.
The white garlic patch is doing quite well…
Lots of sturdy plants. So I mulched them too!
I wanted to use seaweed but… I get distracted, busy and lazy or a combo, so going down to collect it hasn’t happened!!
The new blueberry bushes are showing a few flowers!!
Ew…. well I am sure its just mud. We connected the bore for the first time in a long time… unheard of that our water tanks are so low after winter and in early spring!!! (Normally they are over flowing)
We had to run it a loooong time before it ran clear… but now thinking to empty and clean tanks.
No idea what that entails or if we need some professionals!!
Hated running the water to waste but there is no where to put it – and everything is watered enough as we’ve not long had rain.
And last but not least… some baby cherry-plums starting to show up!!
If the season rolls along at a good temperature, maybe we will get the plums this year rather than the birds!!
Fingers crossed!!
Hope everyone is doing really well!
Cheers
