We are on a roll here – three nice days in a row!!
We started out today by picking up a load of woodchip to tidy up the side garden
I want to get those grass clumps from the pot to plant at the back here
Best go and see what the compost has to offer…
We spread a barrow load of compost here and will plant the grasses in just as soon as I extract them from their pot!
We have been wanting to do something with the patch of yard out the back for quite some time – always hard to know where to start! But we drew up a couple of possibilities up and actually ‘broke ground’
We thought it was time to move the strawberries to a fresh patch. I was keen to dig them up and tidy them up, but we decided to actually make the new garden first, so I can just transplant them rather than try to keep dug up strawberries alive while I procrastinate about making a new garden!
We are going to leave a small path between the current and new garden.
We have got some rock around the property that we want to edge all these new gardens with & Cousin Jeff reckons he can source us some more rocks to play with! Cool.
Its amazing what you dig up on an old homestead! Glass and pottery abound!
Random pipe unearthed
Heaps of lovely big worms were also everywhere! (Chickens, being on the other side of the yard, missed out big-time today!)
The plot, toward the end of the day was finally taking shape. We think we can find enough rock around the place to finish edging it tomorrow. We will then trot back off to the nursery and get a mix of topsoil and mushroom compost to top up this new garden before moving the strawberries across. Remaining compost mix to be added to the old strawberry patch which I would like to plant with pretty flowering plants.
While looking for more rocks I remembered we had this bridge! So I extracted it from the vines that were tangled around it and brought it around to the new patch
I don’t know if it will look dumb, or work – but I do want a middle gap through these gardens as I like to charge straight off the back veranda to go down the back… so we will experiment and see.
So, not a bad days work! We are totally feeling it tonight every time we stand up! haha – clearly out of intense gardening practice! All this rain has got me used to sitting by the fire!
Hope you have had a fabulous day!
Cheers!
It’s all so beautiful!
From the digging to the rocks to the cute little red bridge, you have created a masterpiece for free!!!
You will have magnificent berries in that space!
Thank-you Mary! I can’t wait to get the strawberries actually in the patch! Its satisfying to ‘use what you got’ 🙂
Your rock edging is inspiring me. Have been collecting rocks from a construction site, with permission of course. Think need another two or three trips. Since we don’t have a truck or pull wagon, been taking multiple trips with the car. Then once move some plants, will be able to start building a retaining wall for my flower garden. Now for some non-muggy weather to help along the effort.
Hi Elizabeth! Well done for sourcing some free rocks! Most places like that (and the farmers) as SO happy to have someone come and get them. Its quite the job moving them isn’t it? Even around the property here we can only put about half a dozen in the barrow at a time!
Do things cool down in the evenings for you?
Darn, drove by my rock source today, and the pile was gone! Due to weather etc. wasn’t able to make more rock runs til now. This location was just a mile away, so it was convenient. The farmer’s sell their old stone pasture walls to landscapers from the money’d parts of the east coast. Can’t compete. Plus, its sad, the local landscape losing those wonderful walls.
Evenings do cool off some, but the humidity is still there. Have a ceiling fan and a window air conditioner in our bedroom that saves us. Hubby calls the room an ice box, as I keep it really cool. Nice during the day to take a cool “dip.”
That is so sad about the rock walls!! I love the look of those! Haven’t told Jeff I want to build one somewhere somehow! lol
You’ll have to keep an eye out for another building site!
Humidity is a killer. Glad our summers are dry. In Tassie summer nights are reasonably cool, so its really comfortable to sleep.
Stay cool – I just put the fire on! 😀
Aww, I love the bridge! I think it works very well indeed. I wish I could help out and hobble around with you, but it certainly looks like you’re doing a bang up job! 😀
Thanks Lyra! We can always move the bridge later if we really don’t like it! Def. creaky this morning! haha