QUOTES AND INSPIRATION

Garden list for December

Things I want to achieve in December 24

This year has flown by.  The feels like start of summer has arrived all of a sudden and I have no choice but to embrace it.  The garden has been planted out for the season and managed to survive largely unattended throughout November with just weeding and watering from my handy helpers. But now it is the time to support it as the harvest develops and find time amid the festive season for some project work.

There are ‘to do’ items that are new to the list as the season unfolds sitting beside items that may be there a while or those that just have a short window to get done and will be crossed off quicker than it takes to write it down. Then there are the things that need to be done and can’t be ignored a moment longer.  Some items find themselves back on the list again after being recently being crossed off, but that is the nature of a garden, many things are quite cyclic and come around again before you know it.  As always there are things on the list that seem like it will never be crossed off but it’s there as a reminder of things I want to do.

GARDEN GARDENING

  • Weekly weeding of all sectors.
  • Repair irrigation.
  • Harvest when necessary.
  • Keep an eye out for the need to water.
  • Increase pest watch.
  • Continue with bricks in paths.
  • Clear sand along fence line.
  • Trap possums.
  • Feed growing crops.

THE VEGETABLE GARDEN

Sector 1

  • Succession plant peas
  • Tie in and tend to tomatoes.

Sector 2

  • Clear out brassica bed.

Sector 3

  • Trim mini hedge.
  • Succession plant salad crops & carrots.

Sector 4

  • Weed Jerusalem Artichoke
  • Clean out pond
  • Add to flower garden.
  • Maintenance around greenhouse.
  • Set up irrigation through this area.

Sector 5

  • Build frame for luffa.
  • Build a blueberry cage to protect the berries
  • Finish irrigation system
  • Sort out flower bed.
  • Protect from possums.
  • There is a garden bed on my garden plan that is listed as “weeds.” This needs to change.

THE PALACE:

Room 1

  • Trim rosemary hedge.
  • Renovate bench
  • Add brackets to stairs
  • Clean up behind garden

Room 2

  • Install edging
  • Get plaque for time capsule.
  • Add plants to fill gaps.
  • Train hedge.
  • Refresh the bark mulch.

Room 3

  • Start the build with pergola
  • Make pavers
  • Keep moving forward with project.

OTHER PROJECTS – for when I have time.

  • Weedeat up to swingseat
  • Landscape around the swing seat.
  • Weed around trees on windbreak hill.
  • Plant more trees on windbreak hill.
  • Office building maintenance.
  • Weed Waterfall.
  • Clothesline project.
  • Investigate ‘hill art’ project.

KITCHEN GARDENING

  • Make the most of every harvest.
  • Do something with frozen elderberries.
  • Something from the garden in every meal.

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