Sunburn!!

Hello!
How wonderful to get a day that felt like summer!
Even though Jeff just came off a nightshift, we got outside and into the yard work!

And of course a bit of a before and after…

Eventually Jeff had to head to bed. I got involved in a few things.
I really wanted to harvest the worm castings… so I dumped the tray of dirt and worms on the table, mounded it up and as the worms moved down to the middle, I took the castings.

I filled two trays with new cocopeat and divided the worms between them

It was good to use some of the castings straight away – and yes, I did go buy some chives seedlings!

I adore Mavis’s garden markers!!

Now – onto solving my bird issues!
They are on a digging frenzy!

Some rebar stakes to slip the polypipe over! Much slicker and faster job!

I re-mulched the zucchinis. They will be able to retain the moisture better and be happier not to be dug up daily!

I cut these potatoes right back as they were shading the little pumpkins! They are not even supposed to be there but I hate pulling such great plants out! Will see how they produce now that I have cut so much off.

I netted 4 beds today.
And even got on the mower! Jeff ran out of puff before getting to my garden and the long grasses were driving me mad.

Here is a current ‘overall’

Liliums starting to burst out!

I think I read that the weather was meant to go bad again – but I really want to plant out all the seedlings and take the table away.

Oh – here is my ugly solution to the wind issue.
The other day I was so mad at the wind! haha
No bottle was going to stay on the poor little butternut seedlings, so, netted to stop the birds digging them up, then plastic dragged over to shelter them from the wind and cold.
And my… wasn’t THAT fun! (NOT)
Try to do that by yourself in gale force winds and not say rude words!!
Of course it makes watering a total pain.
I did have the cover off today so was able to give everything a good watering.

This is as close to a Christmas Tree as we are going to get this year!
Classy hey?
Again – birds have taken to eating the foliage and I really really don’t want to net it. Too hard to get under to pick when the snow peas show up – which should be soon.

This new bed is going along well… will be able to pick that rocket soon!

After I had finished in the garden this afternoon, I ducked over to see Margie to have a belated cuppa for her birthday!
Took some leek and rhubarb

I also went scratching about the garlic to see how they are developing!
Pleasing so far!

Not sure if we will get many of the cherry plums to eat. In our experience if the season is late, the birds will come in and eat them before they get a chance to ripen.

Anyway, it was a splendid day outside, spent a lot of time in bare feet and was happy to get some things done.

I hope all those in the US celebrating Thanksgiving have a wonderful day and a hearty feast!

Cheers!