PrincessInOz
Thanks for my avatar, Mary Jo!
- Joined
- Feb 8, 2010
I've finally gotten most of the weeding done, pruned back the lavender and have put down some Blood and Bone, Dynamic Lifter and Saturaid. The lavender will get a nice watering of liquid fertiliser every day or so for the next 3 weeks to help it kick start growth. If I'm lucky, I should have it nicely in bloom for Christmas.
There's a nice patch of garden bed that I've been watching for the last 3 weeks just to check the sun exposure and it looks like it gets quite a nice amount of sunlight. I'm going to dig in some compost there before November and turn it over a bit. It might be the perfect spot for the tomato to go in this year. The general rule for here is to NOT plant tomatoes before November. So, I'll wait til then.
One the bonus front, I was in the local Safeway this week and just happened to hear an announcement about free seedlings! Turns out no one watered about 20 trays of seedlings for a while and they were all looking really sad. I bypassed the tomatoes and parsley...and checked out the cukes and eggplant. Cukes were too far gone to save but there was one lovely punnet of about 6 eggplant seedlings that looked semi decent. I've come home and watered them in the punnet. They have come on quite nicely.
Looks like I'm in the garden again tomorrow to do some planting!!
If the weather is nice, I'll take a couple more pictures of the garden. The cherry, apple and the mulberry is coming along nicely. I need to get some netting to keep the birds off.
There's a nice patch of garden bed that I've been watching for the last 3 weeks just to check the sun exposure and it looks like it gets quite a nice amount of sunlight. I'm going to dig in some compost there before November and turn it over a bit. It might be the perfect spot for the tomato to go in this year. The general rule for here is to NOT plant tomatoes before November. So, I'll wait til then.
One the bonus front, I was in the local Safeway this week and just happened to hear an announcement about free seedlings! Turns out no one watered about 20 trays of seedlings for a while and they were all looking really sad. I bypassed the tomatoes and parsley...and checked out the cukes and eggplant. Cukes were too far gone to save but there was one lovely punnet of about 6 eggplant seedlings that looked semi decent. I've come home and watered them in the punnet. They have come on quite nicely.
Looks like I'm in the garden again tomorrow to do some planting!!
If the weather is nice, I'll take a couple more pictures of the garden. The cherry, apple and the mulberry is coming along nicely. I need to get some netting to keep the birds off.