I am going to jump over task number four on the list in favour of task five. I can justify it like this – Number four is to enrich the onion bed and get it all ready for them to move into, but I have to face facts – they aren’t ready for it yet they are still too little. Besides I have weeded the … Continue reading I have made an executive decision.
While it may have been warmish for a winter evening the other night, last night was definitely cooler and foggy, but its still not proper cold and all my plants are confused. I did a wee wander around looking for something to do and guess what I found… Raspberries and strawberries – what the??? These plants are supposed to be long since dormant. How can … Continue reading I think the winter is toying with us.
My poor raspberries… Oh how I neglect you. Last year I moved my raspberries from the orchard, to the veggie patch as you really need to keep a constant watch over them, especially at harvest time, when you really need to pick every day. At the moment it takes all my greatest efforts to get to the orchard as there are two paddocks with the … Continue reading I feel like I have been dragged through a raspberry bush backwards!
And I still haven’t finished planting out the garden. I feel like I am in some kind of race against time to get it all done. Most of the time the weather is my friend and it is warm and sunny, but we get these occasional spring showers that blow in from what seems like nowhere, dumps its load and disappears as quickly as it … Continue reading There are only 16 days left in spring…
