SEE THE BIG LIST OF THINGS I HOPE TO DO IN JUNE 2024.
The garden is paved with good intentions and there is always a possibility I’ll get to everything on the list but more than likely some things will roll over to next month or next year and some will loose relevance. Tasks not on the list may get done in a unexpected side track and the weather may just have the final say and nothing will get done.
ROUTINE GARDENING
- Weekly weeding of all sectors.
- Harvest when necessary.
- Continue with bricks in paths.
- Clear sand along fence line.
- Trap possums.
- Tidy office and tool shed.
THE VEGETABLE GARDEN
Sector 1
- Enrich onion bed
- Plant onions
- Harvest peas
- Sow new peas
Sector 2
- Eat brassica.
- Remove pepper plants and enrich bed.
- Clear Odds and Sods bed
- Eat Leeks
Sector 3
- Cut down asparagus and enrich bed.
- Deal with beetroot in the kitchen.
- Eat leafy greens.
- Dig up Potatoes
- Enrich old bean bed.
Sector 4
- Review flower garden
- Enrich artichoke bed
- Sort out the plant languish area
- Set up irrigation through this area.
- Dig up Jerusalem Artichoke.
- Tidy greenhouse.
Sector 5
- Build a blueberry cage to protect the berries from creatures.
- Repair a break in the strawberry cage and sort out strawberries.
- Move raspberries.
- Sort out “weeds” beds
- Mulch fruit trees
- Finish irrigation system
- Weed flowers.
- Spray fruit trees
THE PALACE:
Room 1
- Renovate bench
- Add brackets to stairs
- Clean up behind garden
- Train Muehlenbeckia along fence.
- Sort out temporary wind break.
Room 2
- Weed edges
- Weed around time capsule.
- Get plaque made about the time capsule.
- Refresh the bark mulch.
- Install edging
- Encourage Muehlenbeckia to shine along hill edge.
Room 3
- Start designing the new garden.
- Do site survey
- Test soil
- Start the build
OTHER PROJECTS – for when I have time
- Weedeat up to swing seat
- Landscape around the swing seat.
- Weed around trees on windbreak hill.
- Plant more trees on windbreak hill.
- Finish dolphins.
- Office building maintenance
- Waterfall
- Clothesline project.
KITCHEN GARDENING
- Make strawberry jam from frozen berries.
- Do something with frozen elderberries.
- Be intentional with meals using produce from the garden.
- Pickle shallots
Finish dolphins??? What have I missed?
Oh yeah… those – a project with far too many good intentions attached. I need to just push on and get it done so I can feel the sense of achievement that comes with a finished project instead of the guilt of a project languishing in a corner. : o)
Possums!! Oh my! I remember them from earlier. Those things look scary. (As I mentioned earlier, I looked them up to see if they were like opossums, which are commonly known as ‘possums.)
I think your Opossums would be more welcome than our thuggish possums! : o)
Some people like them because they eat slugs, snails, grubs and baby rats. I dislike them because they eat fruits, vegetables, nuts and anything else that they think they can eat, and they are creepy. Possums from Australia look much scarier and meaner though.