The borage has popped up and out into flower again. I enjoy the way it just self seeds!
Yesterday for most of the day was sunny and lovely. Went for a walk around the river with Cousin Fiona then decided to try to get something done in the garden while it wasn’t raining
10 minutes later… it was raining!!! Eyeroll…
So I just put on a raincoat and continued on.
I planned to do the two strawberry patches and hopefully another bed
Haha – yeah right! I got ONE done.
Still… its one less on my list.
Such a mess – sadly a lot of twitch has gotten in so that takes ages to pull out. And try to rescue as many of the strawberry plants as possible
My back turned for 5 minutes and the ‘helpers’ are right in there!!
They get tolerated until they start chowing down on the rocket, then its eviction time!
I topped the bed up a little then planted the best of the strawberries that I could find
Admittedly it all looks a little underwhelming at this point.
Gave them a light mulching with the straw… when they (if they?) perk up and get bigger I’ll top up the straw more.
A bit before getting the straw, I herded all the chooks back down the other side of the yard – I had visions of leaving the bed to get the straw and coming back to see a squadron of them digging up the plants!
You would have laughed to see the sequence of events… I had Flea tucked under one arm (she doesn’t shoo… she just wants to follow me!) and the rest of them in front herding their waddly fluffy butts down the back through the gate.
Well… they all went in like little lambs EXCEPT for Flossie (Flea’s sister)
She under NO circumstance was going to go with the others… The little snot actively dodged and ran every way except the gate and took off… so there is me, Flea still tucked under my arm chasing her.
In the end I put Flea over into the right area, got a long stick to give myself extra arm length to herd Flossie back
Nearly there and she took off again, so I am totally running about in my big gum boots shouting at her while she just charges over the gardens, up on to the veranda and for some reason up onto the back table OVER MY CAMERA where I finally caught her!!!
All this was to the tune of a LOT of indignant bok bok boking …
Here is a (not so flattering) shot of me and the Miscreant Flossie!!
So… 15 minutes later, I was able to finish the garden and put the netting back up (Some native animal really likes to eat the strawberry leaves)
I was done for the day really… in my ‘older’ age I find an afternoon of digging or bending over patches really makes me feel every muscle that night and the next day! Very annoying!
Above – herb spiral. The oregano is coming back nicely.
Will have to keep the mint and lemon balm at bay this season.
We are a month off spring but already some flowers are popping out, which is awesome! Gives me some enthusiasm
I had to pull up one of the borage plants as it was in the strawberry patch. š
Daffodils!! Soon!
The plum trees also have some blossoms already!
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The little rhododendron is about to flower… I got this from Ruby’s place!!
Lush green with sprinkles š
The white garlic looks pretty good!! Almost 100% germination!
Dunno what this is yet… there are two of them in the grass!!
The carrots I planted in October!! Still going strong (what wasn’t nibbled by rabbits anyway) Handy just to pull up some as needed. Not long before I need to clear the patch so I can start fresh!
Anyways, thats me done!
Hope your week is going well!
Cheers!
