Beautiful weather in Melbourne town today!
Haven't been out in the garden for about two weeks. First, the whole family was sick for a week & then we had several days of rainy, drab weather. Well today was a fine day, so out we all went, gardening mumma, little helper & baby girl.
Baby girl watched all the gardening unfold from her snuggly position in her baby carrier.
She obviously thought it was fun. She's very easy to please to be honest! Like her mother of course.
On the way down to the veggie patch, I passed my Sango Kaku maple & took a few photos. It is looking gorgeous in the autumn sun.
First look at the garden & stupid possums and/or Siamese cat have eaten some of my pea seedlings & most of my spinach. There is possum poo everywhere, so I'm assuming it's the night bandits again *sigh* well at least there are still some left *sigh again*. Here's a couple of photos of my spinach at the moment.
Today I made a trellis for my sugar snap pea seedlings. I attached plastic covered wire to the 2 stakes I placed when I sowed the pea seeds a few weeks ago. I also lightly tied some of the seedlings to the lower wire to encourage them to trail up into the trellis.
I also lightly tied my pea seedlings to my other trellis. They were planted as seedlings so they are more advanced than my sugar snap peas. Some photos.
They should be up & climbing in no time.
Checked out my garlic next. It's looking lovely.
My parsley is as lush as ever. Been adding it to many dishes.
And little helpers nasturtium is growing beautifully as well.
Not sure about my silver beet. It seems very small for how long it's been in the ground. Not holding much hope for it, but, we'll see.
My spring onion is a bit odd? As I said when I planted it initially, I've never grown it before, so I'm not too sure how it grows. At the moment it is a bunch of very, very thin shoots. Perhaps they will grow into full sized spring onions?? I hope so!
Could you see them? Like I said, very, very thin.
Did a bit of weeding. Clover is running wild in my patch at the moment & lots of little grass shoots all around. Tried to pull them out before they become a big problem.
A lot of mulch has washed away & started to decompose (which is great for the soil) so little helper & I added some more all around the garden.
Please note: I do put shoes on my child when he goes outside. He decided he didn't want them on & if you have a toddler, you know you just let these types of things go! Pick your battles they say.
Baby girl was having a great time riding on my back, watching little shoe-less helper & I garden.
After mulching, I added some more snail & slug pellets. After all the rain we've had there has been lots of them around.
I like this brand because it's safe for the Siamese cat & those annoying possums that eat all my crops.
After all the rain recently, the last thing my patch needed was a watering, but little helper wanted to & who am I to deny his cranky "watering now?" face.
So water the garden he did.
Here is my Autumn/Winter patch end of April 2012. Things are pretty tame but hoping it will all take off soon.
Oh by the way, please excuse the poorly placed soaker hose. I really need to lay it better. I'll wait until everything gets a bit bigger & work around the plants.
Hope you enjoyed todays veggie patch update.
Have a fantastic Sunday,
Bel
