Hello!!
I was dying to get into digging with the little machine, but I really had to sort out the strawberries.
It was a testing day weather wise.
Actually I was quite a grumpy pants by the end of the day – does weather do that to you? It wouldn’t make up its mind… we’d get bursts of lovely sunshine then ten minutes later – icy rain.
And wind. I think I was just over it and after a good nights sleep I am sure my positive self will bounce back! 🙂
Plus – I feel bad for being annoyed at our weather when friends in Queensland have been evacuated from their home tonight! Fires everywhere, harsh winds and the temps have been high. Its not even summer yet! 🙁 Its not good up that way!
One direction you get this gorgeous sky…
And in the other direction a slightly more ominous kind of gorgeous!
So – strawberries.
This bed needs to be moved, (cows stick their heads over the fence and graze) so I weeded it all up and started moving soil over to a new bed.
I decided to move the best strawberries from the worst affected plot and give them a total fresh start.
After putting in the recycled soil, I topped it up with potting mix, cow poo, sheep poo and compost.
In the next few days I’ll see about trying to rescue the really poorly leftover plants.
The plants in the other plot were doing better, so I have decided to leave them where they are, but hit them with a triple whammy acid trip.
First I removed the straw mulch…
Then I dug in some sulphur and coffee grounds around each plant.
Then I topped both beds with a pine needle compost that Sharon was kind enough to bring me yesterday (which involved her running about the forest in the rain for me – awesome mate!!)
So! Now I wait and see how they all go.
The lettuce patch is going quite well – I had some random deaths but the rest look pretty good. I think I will mulch with the seaweed – probably better than the straw as the slugs wont like the slightly salty seaweed. I need to mulch as well mostly because the rain and watering kick up the sandy soil and with the crunkle leafed lettuce I tend to not always get all the sand off. I am not especially fond of super crunchy salad! haha
Herb spiral is still underwhelming. 😀 Can’t expect crazy growth for a while though… its just too cold.
Hmmmm – not sure I am impressed by this!
Hopefully the plant will be ok
My first proper self seeded tomato!! Its doing a fine job all by itself!
I guess I should move it before too much time passes.
Earlier in the day I moved one of the tables and dug the area up, added in mushroom compost and blood and bone and put the new capsicum seedlings in.
Looking forward to moving all the seedlings out into their forever homes so I can move the other table and finish planting out the hothouse.
Cousin Abbey dropped in with eggs and tomato seedlings for the stall and informed me that I can eat rocket flowers!! Yum! Lovely and peppery!!
Yesterday I noticed that annoyingly most of my beetroot seedlings had been chewed!! I am guessing birds not snails or slugs as I doubt they would have left any plant at all. Just all the tops nipped off!!
So I hastily sorted out some netting to give the seedlings a chance.
Handy to have all the bits and pieces ready to set up.
Little basket of fresh stuff!
Hope you have an excellent weekend planned!!
Cheers!
