Showing posts with label winter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label winter. Show all posts

Monday, July 14, 2008

School Holidays


Winter and the school holidays have slowed me down a bit. Not a lot of gardening has been happening.
I spent a few hours today transplanting seedlings and putting in a new lot of seeds. My little plastic houses do an awesome job of keeping the heat in and germinating seeds. The biggest problem is room. I have been taking those seedlings which are not frost tender and putting them in the car port. Unfortunately then they get the cold weather and stop growing.

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Snail Hotels

After a week of horrible winter weather - I mean who'd have thought it bad weather in winter - the sun came out and reminded me I needed to get into the garden and have a bit of a clean up.
After mounding up the potatoes and a quick weed I decided to tackle the last of my pet peve in urban gardens, the horrible, snail sheltering agapanthus. So after a bit of digging and sweating I hauled the last from my vege garden.
Being as I am trying to recycle I did put them aside for my mother in law to recycle into her garden to help retain a bank. She can now go into the snail collecting business.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

How does your garden grow









This post is dedicated to my friend Hay, just to show her even in mid winter after only gardening for two months I can still get things to grow.
The broccoli is my tea tonight - yum yum (I can hear squeals of horror from the rest of my family). Lettuce we have been eating for the last month. Silverbeet for rabbits and in preparation for the chickens. Radishes, carrots and spring onions for winter salads. Peas flowering, I can't wait to eat them and even Kathryn looks interested. Early potatoes sprouting, these for Liam to cut into his favourite food - chips. Parsley for good health. Cauliflower to horrify my family with threats of it being for tea tomorrow. And finally the single solitary lemon on my tiny lemon tree. I can't bring myself to pick it and will content myself with stealing (with permission) the lemons from my neighbours tree.
Enjoy the photo's and ignore the weeds, it has rained and been freezing cold for the last week or so.
Please no comments on the bad photography.