Hi!!!
This is my new very favourite photo of Jeff and Pip!
Jeff took up a new hobby over the isolation period of penmanship…
The other day I looked up to see Pip getting involved – probably quality control!
Jeff had just bought some new reading specs… all the greens were quite unintentional but made for a great snap!!
Time to get raking in the yard. Was so pleased how my leaf compost worked out that I put together last year, I am dead keen to do more!
The chook fence was really bad. Believe it or not, the above is the improved version – bahahaha
Seriously!!
Once the trees are done we’ll do a proper fence here
I strung a wire across the top here but one of the chooks just goes over no problems…. will have to re think that one.
Another afternoon was spent cleaning up one of my messes.
Like flat surfaces, a container is a tempting invitation to store ‘stuff’ that you can’t be bothered finding a real home for (a dreadful trait of mine)
This garden bed was filled with netting, a tarp, pots, hoses etc etc.
Everything is now tidily stacked, folded or rolled – or binned!
I have two empty beds that I should place and fill in preparation for spring!
The snow peas I planted have found the tops of the milk bottles and are wending their way up. Thought I would just leave the bottles. If slugs find them, a bit of chewing at the top won’t be as much of a problem as ring-barking them!
The cape gooseberries are agonisingly slow
I get to eat one or two here and there!
A while back my parents gave me a Bunnings Voucher for my birthday – but since we’ve been restricted on going out and shops closed etc, the other day was the first time out there in a long while!
I picked up a big terracotta pot with the idea to grow my sweet peas in this upcoming season!
Time to use last years batch of leaf mould compost!
Of course I cheated a bit filling the pot – bit of wood and straw at the bottom as fillers.
I also mixed in a bag of potting mix to lighten it up.
Things aren’t complete until you’ve created a Dodgy-Bros trellis…
I’ve also completely overdone the planting thing with heaps of seeds in there!
If they germinate en masse this time, hopefully I can transplant some.
Well… its horribly cold this morning – sunny day but oh so chilly sitting inside without the fire on!
I have lasagne to make, soap to make, lettuce to plant and if I get thoroughly over-excited, I’ll clean the dining room table!!
Cheers!
I’m thrilled to know there is someone else in the world who can’t be bothered finding s real home for stuff! 🤣🤣🤣 Bain of my existence! I love the large terra cotta pot! I had two large terra cotta pots that flanked my front stoop, until the weed whacked through a rock up and broke one. Still happy to have one and relocated the mint into it, which had taken over my herb garden. Hoping for some contol of the spread now.
😀 😀 The endless struggle for ‘stuff location’ 🙂 So glad to hear we are not alone!! 🙂
Pity about one of your big lovely pot!! 🙁 They are a lovely kind of pot though… Will be interesting to see how the sweet peas grow.
Great idea for the mint – keep it in one spot!
The cool, greens and blues in the backdrop of the yellow flowers in the last photo is so lovely. What a great color contrast! Proud of Jeff and Pip for taking up a new hobby. Perfect for cold weather days indoors.
I started my high scent sweet peas in pots two months ago, but I think a mix of a rather wet week just after they germinated and less direct light than I was thinking have stunted their growth. Maybe even something nibbling on the leaves like a slug or snails? Either way, I’ve since moved them so they get more sunshine and hopefully recover now that things are heating up here. They’re still only about 12inches high.. maybe less : / I’ve never grown them before, so still learning. And then the rabbits and chipmunk have managed to nibble through my barrier around the shelling peas. They got very big, very fast, but slowly, one by one, the vines are getting chewed about a foot up. It’s tough when you’re only renting and dont have a garden shed stocked with bits and bobs to rig things up when they’re getting nibbled.
But its not all losses. I have lots of lilies blooming and the lemon balm is going nuts. Also the teddy bear sunflowers, mini-butternut squash and yellow squash are all rather happy in their protected places about the garden 🙂
Thank-you re the flower shot. I rather liked it too – a bit different colour wise overall!
I hope your sweet peas go well! Mine completely failed last season… but I did get them in late and last season… tricky all around!
You are waging little wars with creatures too!
The lilies sound lovely!! And lemon balm is such good value isn’t it? I love dragging a hand though it just to get the beautiful smell!
Really sounds lovely in your garden right now!