Fresh Greens

After the crappy summer harvest of not much, we are at last eating more from the vegie patch. I have even been able to add more to the "harvesting this month". This has made me very happy, as I feel more is happening out in my garden.




Basket full of baby spinach, baby rocket & baby loose lettuces.




Under the bird netting and away from hungry beaks. Check the garlic out in the background.


Had some beautiful rainfalls here in Luckyland. Soil is so lovely and wet. Now we need more rain to go into the catchments, as the soil soaked most of the rain up.

I am always on about recycling in the garden. Click on the link if you'd like to see how I recycle from "My Knitting Box". Pat has lost so much weight and has a couple of jumpers I knitted that are too big....... so I am recycling the wool.

Also there are couple more posts on this topic here...

The cardigan

Starting to pull it apart.


Until next time....hoo roo

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Little Visitors

Often I will say weeds are food here in my garden, for my animals and also wild birds.

This morning a pair of "red rump" parrots paid us a visit out the back. They stayed for ages walking around on the lawn, feasting on weed seeds, from the flowers.



The male parrot is much brighter in colour than the female.


Female "red rump" is a dull olive colour.



Often there are birds walking round in the garden, feeding on what ever takes their fancy.



Just the 2 of them taking their time as they feed on the weed flowers.




Just stunning and beautiful... be the bright male or the olive female.

Until next time....hoo roo

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Hail

So what were you doing at 1 am last night? I was out with Pat, taking photos of the hail after it woke us as it fell.





Not too big and looking at my vegie patch this morning...all is well with the plants.



Pat said more was on the lawn, by the time I got my camera and got out there, some had melted.

We had a lovely 25.5 mm from 9 am yesterday. Garden is just so wet and happy. Ducks are ...well you know ducks... Chooks are wet.

More weather is forecast for today, maybe even some more hail. Noticed a gum tree limb has come down across the road in our neighbour's driveway. Thankfully her car is parked close to the house on her lawn area.

Until next time....hoo roo

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Oh Look Rain.

Yes the heavens have opened up overhead and dropped a lovely 11 mm of rain at last measurement earlier in the day. Lots of rain, steady all day.



Front drive way...... rain was coming in against the back wall & door of the house. So I was out the front taking photos of the rain.



So glad we have the trailer load of crusher dust where Amy parks her car. Used to turn to mud when it rained. Needs another load of crusher dust put down as it's compacted down and the first load wasn't quite enough.

Anyway garden is soaking it up and the rain water tank is full.

Until next time....hoo roo

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Feeling Better

Feeling so much better now. Took awhile to get over the head cold.

Rain here today and there is talk of up to 50 mm of rain for the city and maybe even higher in the hills. This should (hopefully) fall over the next few days.

Garden survived without me, though I bet the weeds will be growing again in a few hours....LOL

Anyway...just a quick post to let you know I am still breathing.

Until next time....hoo roo.

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Resting & Trying to Feel Better

Doesn't Flossy look comfy laying there on the lawn? She was my environmentally friendly wiper sniper. By the end of the day, Flossy had eaten away all the lawn near the pavers for me. This was on the weekend.

Last 2 days I have been resting, mostly in bed as I can't shake this cold I have. Went to the doctor the other day, Pat had a flu shot and check up and I was given a prescription for some antibiotics.

The head cold has now moved down into my chest and I have no voice. Well enough of a husky croaky voice that if I rang my dad today for his birthday, he'd think it was his lucky day once I started to talk..LOL

So I'll ring him tomorrow, hopefully I get him in the morning on the phone.

Yesterday I cleaned the bathroom, laundry & loo, fell on the bed afterward and just died..... Today I stripped our bed and cleaned our bedroom out. Much cleaner afterward to rest and recover in. Figured if I do a room each day or a couple of jobs (like sweeping & vac floors) the house will not become too feral.

I did go for a wander around the backyard when I fed the animals and the garden looked so inviting. Hoping to be able to get out in the garden in the next week, as I need to sort out those seedlings. All the sunshine and that rain is making for some happy lettuce & rocket seedlings.

Eating our fresh parsley now too. Love fresh parsley and can never have enough plants in the garden.

There was a knock on the door today and young Luke next door was sent round by his dad. Pat was talking to Luke's dad over the back fence and had a nasty asthma attack. So I had to help Pat inside and set up the nebuliser for him. Pat has been okay, though breathless for the rest of the day.

Noticed the compost in my tumbler is ready for the garden and then I can put what is in the black compost bin into the tumbler.

Lots to do, just not the energy at the moment.

So Flossy looking so comfy and relaxing is a better photo to post, than one of me not looking my best.



Until next time....hoo roo

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Leeks

On the weekend in line with the moon phases I planted out a punnet of leeks in my little vegie patch.





I picked these up on clearance at Foodland and after a couple of days adjusting to being outside, it was time to plant them in the garden.



I like to set the seedlings out before I start to plant them in the soil. Makes it easier to move them round while finding room for them all.



After the seedlings were all planted out, I trimmed the leaves back a bit. This will help with transplanting shock and also give the seedlings a good chance to develop a good root system.

Even though it was a small and easy chore planting out the seedlings, with this head cold I still have.... I was buggered afterwards from the little play in the garden.

It was wonderful being out in the garden though.

Another 5 mm of rain this week, now we have sunny days forecast for almost the next 7 days.

Until next time....hoo roo

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