Finally, the photos
After some software issues, and some wrestling with the old laptop, and some more grieving for the newer laptop that upped and died a coupla months ago, I’ve sorted out the photos. The Bloke found...
View ArticleEaster gardening
This weekend we: * pulled up the eggplants, despite flowering, not one of them produced any fruit * dug compost into the potato bed and cheered on the self-sown spuds * optimistically planted some...
View ArticleExpanding the garden
I got a call yesterday from my parents, who’ve been patiently minding the wine barrels I was given by their neighbour, to say that Dad had borrowed the ute and would be delivering the barrels to my...
View ArticleGrowing Challenge: Carrots & Daikon
I don’t think I’ve mentioned the carrots and daikon (Japanese long white radishes) that I planted in the front yard a few weeks ago. I forgot at the time that when the weather cools, and the rain...
View ArticleLagging behind
I got a bit behind, what with the fence and April being the Month of Connubials*, and my snow peas and the broccoli seedlings were looking a bit sad at not being in the ground in the great outdoors....
View ArticleMonday-itis
We went away on the weekend, the lad played and played and played and saw animals and was entertained by his cousins while we were in the Yarra Valley for a vineyard wedding. The wedding was late...
View ArticleYeah I’ve still got a garden
Just. I haven’t written about it lately because the broad beans just keep growing without intervention, and nothing else is happening. The snow peas all got eaten by creatures, I planted some more, two...
View ArticleDid you notice?
This here little gardening blog completely failed to mention last week that Australia’s best loved gardening god retired from television. The blog also failed to mention anything about Peter Cundall’s...
View ArticleBragging and more bragging
A dear ol’ pal of mine has started a new blog, which I’m reading excitedly, and now that she’s settled in I feel like it’s ok to link to it. So go say hello to Lucid Ephemera, who will satisfy all your...
View ArticleMore Sunday
That’s parsley in the foreground shade, coriander to the left, tomatoes staked and not so staked, hiding the bed now devoid of potatoes and home to broccoli, onions and lettuce seeds. Behind all that...
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