Summer

Hi there!
Not long before Christmas!
I hope everyone has lovely plans!

Summer has been mild so far but has thrown in a few beaut days!
Nights are still cool

A few weeks back I gave up waiting for steady warm weather and chucked one lot of my tomato seedlings out into the big wide world.
Of course, at first they were total drama queens and fell over, but they did come good again

The weather dipped again and they were looking unhappy. Covering them with the bottles wasn’t doing the trick as they were too big.
My friend Jude, who I work for in her garden on Mondays, uses her old feed and compost bags to create easy little shelters.
So… I followed suit

They’ve enjoyed their little homes and I noted that they’ve perked up nicely
I had to dash down late tonight to cover them back up as I had forgotten so I got a quick snap

Ahhh… the garlic!

Couple of weeks ago I saw that the garlic was looking a bit manky.
I think they are basically ready for harvest

I cut off all the scapes though as I wasn’t ready to do anything with the bulbs yet

I think I used some of these in a spaghetti dish or something

I’ll see about pulling them up in a day or two. Then I can use that plot to get some beetroot in!

Carrot patch going along fine so far

We’ve also spent some more time yard cleaning…
Much to the chooks delight, we pulled up all the pallets as now that we are not cutting down massive trees we don’t need all that wood storage space.
And it was looking pretty bad.

Looking bad AND unorganised!

So, I set aside a spot in the ‘duck yard’ to put the pallets and store all the odd bits of tin we’ve collected.

And random poles and tiles

All neatly accessible.

Weather had dried up enough to burn the rubbish pile!

I put in some pumpkins… however… Nihon kept getting out and she’s pretty much destroyed this patch.
Sob.
So… will have to start again.

Jeff got out to the side garden the other day and proceeded to rip out all the insane paddock grasses and pulled the rock wall down and rebuilt with half the rocks.

Today was another nice day, so I continued in the area, digging out more weeds and smothering with cardboard and sawdust

I hooked the bore up to give the cardboard and newspaper a decent soaking

And…
Voila!

So much better and hopefully will help keep the weeds manageable.

I did a lot more in the back garden but its not finished so will save that when I have the properly finished ‘after’ photos!!

Cheers!