Hello!
How is your weekend going??
A lovely iris appeared out of nowhere – didn’t plant it, haven’t had it before. I love spring. Seems there is always something new and random appearing.
I didn’t drop in last night because I slightly overdid things yesterday and was so tired by the time I got home that I couldn’t think of anything to talk about!
I went to the markets with Fiona – well – it was the annual Tulip Festival where they have a much bigger market set up in the park near the wharf as well as the street blocked off – as well as the beachside markets!!
Because Fiona and I don’t do things normally – we parked at the river track on the highway and hiked the 4km or so into town. Then spend ages checking out stalls – all the way up to the beach market! And back.
Of course by the time we were done and walked all the way back to the car I suspect it was well over a 10km course of hiking/walking.
We were out nearly 6 hours!!! So much for me thinking we’d ‘Pop into the markets’ We had a fabulous day!
I got in at 5pm and had something like 30 minutes to shower, change, smarten up and get back down into town to celebrate a young cousins 21st birthday! (Jeff, coming off nightshift was still sleeping!)
It was a great night – and slept like the dead last night haha (Shopping is so exhausting!)
So – today! I was totally in the mood to get that herb spiral started!
Got my high tech measuring gear out so I could make a nice circle then started hauling rocks about.
Jeff came out for a bit and helped barrow up from the back a couple of loads of rocks – pleased about that!! Mega heavy!!
Pretty nice circle! The string is great. It would have been really wonky without the guide
Pip was out snoopervising.
And off I go, bringing up barrow loads of soil and compost!!
Well! Not too bad! A bit of a groovy pattern if nothing else!
Really looking forward to planting stuff in there. I’ll read up in my book about which herbs go where and get onto it.
It will take some time to establish but hopefully it will all work well and look awesome when everything has grown in.
I took some time to pull out the strawberries I killed and replant with the ones I dug up from Sharons place.
I think (hope) the other ones died because I left them to hike for a week not realising we wouldn’t get a scrap of rain and forgot to tell Jeff to give them a watering!
The brown ones you can see have a little life and hope left in them… Fingers crossed.
Taa Daaa!! First snow peas from the lot I planted in the hothouse a few months back!
The Geum has just started flowering!
Hope you’ve all had a fantastic weekend too!
Cheers!
Lisa, I was having a hard time trying to imagine what your plans were. It is looking amazing! What a great look with the posts and now the rocks. You must be very pleased and feel it worth the hard work.
Thanks Judy! I am enjoying seeing it develop – Can’t wait to get it all done and planted!
Just a comment about your herbs. Parsley is a 2-yr plant that until I learned that, thought it was a 1-yr plant. The second year is to set seed. Grew not the flat, but the curly parsley and thought that it was far more tasty the second year over the first.
Your growing area looks great. My son raided my compost heap to build up a garden bed at his new to him house. Fun to see all the volunteer plants he’s getting: dill and columbine! Know the dill won’t make it through the winter here, but don’t know about the columbine. Next spring will tell!
Hello!! Interesting re the parsley! I wouldn’t have known that. Probably because it just keeps appearing now so I don’t have to worry about it. I’ve got the curly parsley too – I wouldn’t mind trying the flat… just to see!
Ha! What fun – lots of surprise plants for your son! Bonus!! Lucky him having a compost heap to raid!!! Awesome!