P365 – Day 263 – gardening
Juniordwarf said he wanted to go outside this morning, so I told him to go while I finished what I was doing. A while later I went out to see what he was doing. He’d put on his little gardening gloves, got his little digger and was in the...
P365 – Day 176 more space to garden
My vegetable garden is something of a mess at the moment. Well, let’s be honest here, our entire yard is a bit of a mess at the moment. And when I say ‘a bit of a mess’, you can probably take out the first three words and the sentence...
P365 – Day 162 – purple carrots
A few weeks ago I found some purple carrots in a supermarket. Juniordwarf was quite delighted by them, and was more than happy to eat them. A victory in the battle to get him to eat vegetables! He followed this by a refusal to eat orange carrots. Only purple...
P365 – Day 156 tread lightly
It was World Environment Day today, and the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens held its annual TreadLightly EnviroFest. Last year was the first time I attended, and I had a wonderful day exploring all of the stalls and activities, and listening to the speakers. I learnt a lot and I...
P365 – Day 142 lettuces
A good thing about letting lettuces go to seed is that a bit later on you get new lettuces. In the bricks that are holding up the garden beds. And sometimes, exactly where you want them. Right next to a self-sown spring onion. Who needs to buy seeds?...
P365 – Day 137 broccoli
You might remember back in February – coincidentally exactly 100 days ago – I planted some broccoli seedlings. I haven’t thought much of them since then, other than noting how well the snails have fed on them. Today I was hanging the washing out (part of my vege garden...
P365 – Day 78 my little piece of paradise
Regular visitors to pastpresentfuture might remember my post about the jungle down the side of Slabs’ shed. To recap, our back yard has a fenced off section behind Slabs’ home brew shed that is ‘mine’. I have my own tin shed, a sort of paved area out the front...
P365 – Day 68 sunflowers
Several months ago, I signed Juniordrawf up to the Yates Junior Landcare Sunflower Challenge. The idea was for the kids to plant some sunflower seeds, that were provided free (yay), grow and maintain their sunflowers and, once the plants were fully grown, submit photos of their tallest sunflower and largest flower...
P365 – Day 45 – lemon tree
We planted our lemon tree in December 2009. Slabs, Juniordwarf and I spent the best part of an afternoon transferring soil into a huge planter box from the ute in the driveway. Today while Juniordwarf and I were out in the garden, I noticed some tiny green fruit on...
P365 – Day 39 gone to seed
If you were ever wondering what happens when you let a lettuce go to seed, allow me to enlighten you. As a PS to my sunday selections post about the dragon eggs, Kim reported yesterday that a lot of the eggs on display had been stolen. I was really...