Linking up again this morning for the Tuesday garden journal with squiggly rainbow.....
This week has been typically spring like - perfect sunshiney warmth one day, wintery wind, rain and cold the next. This would be fine if the weather would work with our plans, but it isn't. We get a beautiful day for a family visit (which we spent much of inside drinking tea and chatting while the baby was sleeping), and then rain and wind when we want to build the pizza oven! Needless to say, we haven't got as much done outside as we wanted to.
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We have started the pizza oven plinth though. We built two of the levels of besser blocks before the rain set in and it all had to be left covered with a tarp. We're getting better at it as we go, but I will just say that I am not making a career change to brick laying and I wouldn't hire me to build your next home. :)
In the vegie garden, I've continued to plant out a few seedlings as they have reached a good size. I have been giving them a dose of seasol and popping a cloche over them and the growth following transplant has been huge, from 2 true leaves to 4 or more in a few days!
Yesterday I pulled out a couple of shrubs along the front fence that were weedy or struggling. They were also right next to the veg beds in the part of our garden that I one day hope will be all edible. I am going to plant sunflowers and other beneficial flowers and things along there, I am just holding off as I want to buy the seeds when we visit the Garden of St Erth in a couple of weeks.
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In chook news, our last remaining "old girl" (a rescued ISA who was about 6 years old) got sick. We decided that given her age and the fact that our treatments weren't working to help her, that it was kinder to put her down. Stu helped me as I found it tougher to put down a sick old girl than a rooster for the pot. We feel we did the right thing and she went peacefully. In happier news, we have gone from getting two eggs a day to getting four as the weather is warmer. We now get a brown, a white, a cream and a mini bantam egg each day. Love my chooks.
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That's about the wrap up. I apologise for barely getting here to post, but as you can see, we're rather busy at the moment, so I post when I can. I hope you're having a good week too.
This week has been typically spring like - perfect sunshiney warmth one day, wintery wind, rain and cold the next. This would be fine if the weather would work with our plans, but it isn't. We get a beautiful day for a family visit (which we spent much of inside drinking tea and chatting while the baby was sleeping), and then rain and wind when we want to build the pizza oven! Needless to say, we haven't got as much done outside as we wanted to.
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We have started the pizza oven plinth though. We built two of the levels of besser blocks before the rain set in and it all had to be left covered with a tarp. We're getting better at it as we go, but I will just say that I am not making a career change to brick laying and I wouldn't hire me to build your next home. :)
In the vegie garden, I've continued to plant out a few seedlings as they have reached a good size. I have been giving them a dose of seasol and popping a cloche over them and the growth following transplant has been huge, from 2 true leaves to 4 or more in a few days!
Yesterday I pulled out a couple of shrubs along the front fence that were weedy or struggling. They were also right next to the veg beds in the part of our garden that I one day hope will be all edible. I am going to plant sunflowers and other beneficial flowers and things along there, I am just holding off as I want to buy the seeds when we visit the Garden of St Erth in a couple of weeks.
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In chook news, our last remaining "old girl" (a rescued ISA who was about 6 years old) got sick. We decided that given her age and the fact that our treatments weren't working to help her, that it was kinder to put her down. Stu helped me as I found it tougher to put down a sick old girl than a rooster for the pot. We feel we did the right thing and she went peacefully. In happier news, we have gone from getting two eggs a day to getting four as the weather is warmer. We now get a brown, a white, a cream and a mini bantam egg each day. Love my chooks.
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You will love the pizza oven once you build it. We had one at our old place and loved it & miss it now. It is on the to do list.
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