Another lovely day! Feeling quite spoiled!
So… on with the gardening clothes and out to it!
Decided to start by jumping the back fence with a couple of feed bags and a bucket to stock up on pine cones for the fire and pick some fresh paddock daffies.
I should return with a shovel and pick up some cow poo as well!
I toyed with the idea of putting some out the front for sale, but to be practical… it would take me quite some time to sort out for fairly little return. And right now I am so far behind the 8 ball that I just need to get my main garden stuff going.
So I contented myself with a lovely big bucket to bring back up to the house
Its probably a couple of weeks before I should plant my potatoes, so I will finish off the patch another day.
Today, I really wanted to get moving on my raspberry patch
Its too close to the duck-yard garden and its hard for Jeff to mow in there.
So I am going to leave the right hand row where it is, but dig up the left row and move it over. I am also leaving a bit more space between the two rows so I don’t have to fight with the canes when I go picking.
First up… I needed to get the poles out.
That was fun. Pity Jeff was sleeping today! These did not want to come out of the ground in a hurry!
I also dug up the persimmon tree which I think was pretty much dead. There is a nice young blue plum tree at the other end… I am not sure whether to leave it there and try to espalier it and keep it under the raspberry netting, or dig it up and try to relocate it…
Anyway, I put in some steel droppers and dug out a nice big strip of lawn.
Naturally the chooks think this is their new amusement park
Then there was some more digging… I dug down into the strip to break up the soil a bit.
I found the usual glass, nails and other odds and ends!
Next step was to dump a couple of barrow loads of compost in the area
I suspect my raspberry patch will have a few potatoes… never mind. They are easy enough to pull up when they appear!
I did have to cover the new plot fairly smartly because as soon as my back is turned the chickens were back into it… wouldn’t take them long to kick out the compost and eat all my worms!
We need to build a short fence around the whole plot which we will probably do out of pallets – the netting will attach to the fence rather than being on the ground and having grass grow into it. (which is a pain)
I also have grand plans for a door.
We will have to source the big polypipe that we can buy by the metre, the local produce shop only sells it in rolls – which is just shy of $300!!!
But it is an easy way to get a tall frame happening for the netting!
We got nine eggs today! Clearly the warm weather is suiting our flock!
I spent the evening binge watching Battlestar Gallactica and sorting three large boxes of collected seeds!
I am so keen to start planting but feel I might be jumping the gun a little. It is still pretty cold overall.
Patience…
Anyway, many bits of me are a bit tired now! Best start heading towards bed!
Hope your day was great too!
Cheers
