The weather this week has been stunningly beautiful.  It feels like spring is here after just a single week of winter!  I’ve even been working outside in a singlet top….

15 Aug It was time to give the remainder of the garden it’s winter cleanup.  I cut back old leaves on celery, silver beet and rhubarb plants and removed all of the dead asparagus stalks. The next step was to cover the asparagus bed with pea straw.  This batch of straw is very dry, so I turned the sprinkler on to moisten it.

 

The garlic is starting to grow.

I also made it into the tunnel houses and weeded 1.5 of them.
16 Aug I made further progress cutting and poisoning gorse, broom and acacia along the stream from where I left off last week to the large poplars in ridge paddock.
Then I finished cleaning up the tunnel houses. I laid new plastic in one and refitted the existing plastic in the other. It was definitely a good idea to leave the plastic in there over the growing season, there were substantially less weeds in the tunnel with the plastic than the one with out.