Garden

I just had a look down our north sideway - ugh, what a mess.  It has not been looked at over winter and boy does it show.

The weeds are HUGE, the plants cover the path nearly and there's lots of leaf litter under the olive tree (I think that's what it is).  Time to get my butt into gear.

Moved and weeded the poor strawberry plants.  I still have 3 of them, though 1 looks a bit sick.  Gave them all a good drink and moved them to the front of the house where they will get some sunshine.  It looks like I may have another one growing in an abandoned pot; the one I was going to use for carrots.  I found some more pots too up near the front gate that still have mix in them.

So the plan for Sunday is this......

• Get those pots and dig around in them to find any left over roots.  Remove said roots, add some manure, extra mix and water well then let sit for a week.  Then I will plant some carrot seeds.
• Put a few tomato seeds into the jiffy pots.  I might do 2 or 3 pots and see how they geminate.  I think if they go well I should probably do 2 or 3 every month - that should keep us in tomatoes.
• Pot up the Cat Grass for the moggies.

This is after I've done the ironing and come home from the competiton in the morning.

I should also rip out as much of the weeds in the pavers as possible.  One weed is a rather large thistly prickly thing - need gloves or a spade (or both) for that.  The leaf litter I want to keep - it will go in the vege garden bed I intend setting up.

Vegetable Garden

So the other day I went online to a gardening website and joined up.  This will give me 2 years of magazines - 12 in total - full of gardening advice and seeds/plants to purchase.  I also bought a collection of 9 different varieties of seeds to plant out.  There is broccoli, pumpkin, melons (don't know what sort) tomatoes, peas, lettuce, capsicum and onions.  Apparently using these 9 packets I can produce over 100kg of produce.

Now the next part is to figure out just where I am going to plant them.  I have been thinking about this for a couple of years now and I believe the best place is in the front yard!!  I know hubby will NOT like this at all, but if I do a small bed out there that should not look too messy.

I think I have a plan - 1 raised bed in the top end of the front lawn that is 1.2m x 1.2m,
                                            only 30cm high
                               - 1 raised bed out the back against the back fence that is 2m
                                             x 1m, needs to be 40cm high to keep dogs off it
                               - and a final one down the side against the house that is .5m
                                            x 3m, 40cm high

This last one could possibly be put on the existing garden bed, then it only needs to be 30cm high, but it won't be 3m long.

Each bed I want to do as a no-dig-garden - I think I will be raiding the supermarket for carboard boxes, and maybe the newsagent for old newspapers.

Hope my seeds turn up soon.........

Men

I read a quote the other day that was attributed to William Morris.  It was "Do not have anything in your house that is not either useful or you deem to be beautiful." 

My immediate thought was - "Does this mean I can rid of the hubby??"

Hubby's Car

He has finally finished making up and installing drawers in the back of our Landcruiser.  I will admit they look quite good, all covered in grey felty carpety stuff.  He wants to add some dividers in the drawers to help with the rolling around of items within them.  They are quite large and take up the whole of the width/depth of the rear of the car and are about 30cm high.  Not much room for the dogs anymore.

His next projet will be to make a tipping up slider for out engel car fridge.  He also recently put a snorkel on the car too. 

The kids think he is crazy and can't believe I let him 'ruin' the car.  But next year we will be travelling up to Cape York and possibly over to Uluru also, so I can see the need for these modifications.