Today I pulled up a couple of carrots to check that they were growing okay. Yesterday Opa picked a bowlful of my cherry tomatoes. This evening I had to fend for myself in the food department. I decided to cook using ingredients from my garden as much as possible. I started off by making a [...]
Wow. So the whole thing went crazy while I wasn’t really looking! Over the weekend Opa attempted to pin up some of my tomatoes, but they are just crazy. Today I found a couple of other loose strands so I put some more stakes in and tied them up. I also put some stakes next [...]
So it has been more than a month and there is some definite growth happening. Yesterday I got around to doing a bunch of things that needed to happen. I weeded both halves, and finally mulched the second half. I also put dirt around the leeks again, and mulched around them. I was out there [...]
So I invited my second cousin Mitchell to come and plant some carrots in my garden. This morning I woke up bright and early and drove to the nursery to buy some plants for us to plant. I got to the nursery before 9am, the signs were all out and the gates were open, but [...]
This is just a quick post to say that I finally planted that extra oregano that I bought with my original seedlings. The poor stuff was almost bursting the punnet, I actually had a lot of trouble pulling the plants apart because the root systems had grown so much. Fortunately I grew up watching Peter [...]
I took a few pics this afternoon and then I went and watered the garden with some greywater. Opa was digging up a garden bed that is next to the driveway because the driveway people are coming early tomorrow morning, around 7.45am. So after he took the plants out I started to dig some of [...]
Today was such a loverly sunshiney day that I wanted to be outside. So I decided to move the dirt around in the second bed and put newspaper under it. For some reason I expected that to be very easy, not to say it was hard, but I got all hot and sweaty in the [...]
