Over the last several weeks the focus in the garden has really been about getting it planted. For some reason I have been running behind, even though my intentions were to try and get ahead. In that process I ended up just focusing on the plants and getting them in the ground alongside their support structures and paid little heed to the mess I was … Continue reading October… Done! – A Garden Tour.
Finally, I can put down my trowel and stop lying awake at night worrying about the increasingly leggy plants growing in pots rapidly becoming too small. Everything that can be or needs to be, has been planted into the garden. The beds and my heart are full. The garden is done, and it looks wonderful. I don’t know what it was about this spring. It … Continue reading All Planted Out
The garden has been so patient, waiting for me and the weather. Getting this garden planted out is really happening in fits and starts. Yesterday was so foggy, misty, and drizzly that it wasn’t worth going out. It was the kind of humid that soaks into your bones and I decided not to attempt it. The last thing I need right now is to catch … Continue reading Wait one moment, I’ll be with you directly.
Knowing the garden has good access to water is one of those things that takes a weight off my mind for the season ahead. The water tanks are in a good place going into summer. They aren’t completely full; I think we have more storage capacity than our small roof can capture. Maybe we should have moved a bigger house onto the land! But I … Continue reading This is turning out to be a strange season
Finally I have reached that sweet spot in the garden when everything is planted out and the harvest isn’t quite there yet. The lull allows me to catch my breath and recover from the frenzied chaos getting all the work done. I have time to come up with some projects and just relax for a bit. But rather than tell you all about it I … Continue reading The Sweet Spot
For some reason this season has been like a problem child, kicking its heels as it staggers along slowly, not really paying attention to where it is going and wilfully ignoring the grown up gardener hand trying to urge it along to get to the destination where we can all sit down and have ice cream, or in my case tomatoes! I really don’t know … Continue reading In the midst of the busyness
While I have proven I am excellent at procrastination, I have confirmed without a doubt I have mastered a new skill – under estimating things. I think I always knew it because there have been a multitude of projects where I completely believe I’ll have it whipped up in an arvo, only to find it takes 3 days and the help of Hubby the Un-Gardener … Continue reading Still planting
Ohhhh…. Here we are on the eve of the most exciting gardening weekend in the entire calendar. More exciting that the sweet sensation of that first strawberry, crunch of the first pea or the delight that comes from the first sun warmed tomato eaten right there in the garden. This weekend is like all of those things combined and more. It is the weekend that … Continue reading On the edge of excitement
I’m nearly there. I just have beans and zucchini, squash, herbs, cucumbers and melons left to go into the garden. The good thing about the cucumbers is their bed is ready and waiting and the frame is up, ready to support outreached tendrils as they grow towards the sun. The only thing holding things up at this point is the cucumbers themselves. I’d like them … Continue reading It is all in the little things
Each year I approach spring with great expectancy. I want to be spring ready. That is to have all the beds weeded, dug over, lovingly enriched and left to rest for a few weeks so the soil, and the added goodies, can incorporate and any weeds that show themselves can be whipped out. So all I need to do come planting day is waft about … Continue reading The great garden reveal?
