Well… Little Moo was returned to the paddock next door, and has taken a big liking to my sunflowers!! Little Rotter!
Neatly pruned the tops of pretty much all of this patch – they were about 5 minutes away from flowering too!! 🙁
Butter would not melt…
Lucky he is cute! He still galumphs up to us when he sees us in the yard so he can say hi and get a scratch.
I did try to feed him some of the fennel. I thought the strong licorice taste would make him wary of eating anything else on our side of the fence…
Ha! He just guffed it down and looked for more!!
Luckily the sunflowers I transplanted into another garden are looking good so at least I should be able to enjoy a few soon!
I officially gave up on this strawberry patch. They didn’t do much good this season so I am going to start with brand new plants next season. I spent a fair bit of time pulling everything up and sifting through the dirt for the oxalis which has taken a bit of a hold in there.
I am considering removing the rocks and putting in some raised beds here instead… (not for a while though). Now that its cleared out I might just pop some plants in that need to get out of their small pots and make use of the area for the remainder of the season.
Then while I was in the clearing out mood, I decided that the fennel and the herb garden in general was just an eyesore so…. out it went.
It took a lot of effort to dig those fennel plants out! The roots are pretty solid!
Megumi came out and did some weeding down the fence side of the garden so its all starting to look a bit less like snake habitat!!
Not sure what I will put in here… at the very least it should be smothered in mulch!!
Pleased to get in and do some more gardening of the cleaning up type.
I didn’t get photos, but while Jeff was out in the car, I cleaned out the carport that was looking very scruffy. The old and VERY heavy washing machine has been sitting there at an odd angle for 12 months, so I moved it into the corner tidily and cleaned up all other junk in there too… mostly it was accumulated leaves and dirt that made it look so shabby!
I don’t think my back is thanking me for the appliance relocation effort though.
Especially when I did a river hike afterwards.
Sometimes I am not very clever!!
Oh well… hopefully it will be less grumpy with me tomorrow!
Hope your week has ended well!
Cheers
PS The blueberry ice cream was mmmmm 🙂
I expect Little Moo thought you planted those sunflowers just for him!
You really have to watch the cows. If you have “food” near the fence they will continue to try to get to it, including sometimes going through fences or taking them down, especially as they get bigger. My advice is to keep your garden away from the fence and don’t feed the cows. When you feed the cows they know you have good things to eat and that encourages them to look for food and push on the fence to find it. They don’t even notice the barbs on the barb wire. You will be very sad/angry if you find them in your garden because the fence didn’t hold them in.
Hmmmm – you are very right. I would be extremely displeased to come home and find Little Moo charging through my garden!! I hope they move him before he gets too big because the fence between us and the neighbours is pretty old and crappy. If he got it in his head I doubt it would hold up for long! Mostly in that garden its just been herbs. The tomatoes and zucchini are out of reach. If it looks like he is getting pushy I may have to talk to them. Not that its really in the budget for us to pay halves to update a fence right now – esp since its not us that wants a cow haha
Oh no! Poor sunflowers 🙁
Lucky I got a snap of that one flower. Was gone this morning. Hope it tasted ok! lol