hi back – I was up with the birds, but haven’t really ventured outside properly, except to pick some slverbeet for breakfast, I am so overloaded on food forest info, I can’t remember what I’ve read or where I read it – 🙁 – so I’m just going to plant
I got up sparrows fart too So far watered the veg and set fire to the kitchen
Well the baking paper under my toasted tomato and cheese sandwich Went up in flames Spent the next 10 minutes getting the black smoke stains of the white stove.
Why do weeds grow so well?? cause that’s what I’ve been doing weeding, weeding and more weeding. We got up early and DH continued with the storm cleanup, I fed the fish and got stuck into the weeds… then it was time to do the morning walk around check the gardens, check the pumpkins for female flowers, pick the zuchs before they turn into zepplins, pick the cape gooseberries so we had them for breakfast along with some apple slice I made last night… 8 cape gooseberries wasn’t going to be enough for the 2 of us…. soon off to have a nanna nap
my geisha girl comes down tomorrow, as does my rose of sharon, both in the wrong spot, well I made the geisha girl in the wrong spot when I planted the apples, not fully realising at the time, I was just stoked that I found somewhere to plant them lol but the edge of that bed is too close to one of my raised beds, so that will be getting made smaller – very hard to walk through room for another guild 😉 the rose of sharon is right up against the house, and is getting harder and harder to trim/lop so I’ll be needing some other kind of butterfly bushes
We are recovering from ten days away. Glad the garden survived pretty much, but the weeds are out of control. DH and I worked hard on on the front today, so it looks a bit more loved.
I’m looking at swapping my trees around putting the apples where the orange is and visa versa, the more I think about it the happier I am, will be much better for the trees involved, better for the guilds, better for their growth and spreading of limbs – yes happy vegemite here, – don’t know why I didn’t think of it sooner they’ve only been in a month (apples) so they should be ok, the orange and been in for a few months now, and the madarine has been in a year fingers crossed
more of a space thing, and the way they grow, but will in turn make it easier for doing the guild – will leave the mandarin where it is, have changed my mind on that one, I can always buy a valencia for up the back
so callie is busy playing “musical fruit trees” LOL
I haven’t done much so far today fed the fish and moved some frog spawn. Did the morning walk around and picked some more cape gooseberries but they didn’t make into the house. The zuchs are being a pain they only have female flowers now so as soon as the flower drops off I pick them. I’ve worked out where I want to plant some trees but until the grass is cut I’m not going there it is up to my armpits in places… don’t know what might be hiding in there I don’t know who got the bigger fright the wallaby or me LOL
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