On 28th I sowed more seeds:
Basil – sweet genovese* – in pot
Chilli – Cayenne blend* and Pepper – Jimmy Nardello sweet* in a tub (half of each)
Butternut – Waltham* x 6 in 2 pots
Lettuce – green salad bowl*, Mesclun – original*, Rocket – runway* in a seed raising tray
Amaranth – Golden giant^, Spinach – summer green*, Pak Choi – choko* in a seed raising tray
Soy bean* x 12 in small tray
Peanut – black pindar* x 12 in small tray
Bean – mother in law^ x 12 in small tray (these are for drying, not eating fresh)
* seed from Kings seeds
^ seed from Koanga gardens
I put out the garden timer for the sprinklers today. It’s time to start watering all of the new plants in the garden beds. The timer goes on every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday at 7:30pm for 30 minutes.
We also spent 10 man hours (2 hours with 5 people) spreading wood chips around the trees on the roadside – it looks great! Those chips are about 30cm deep in places!
Milly and Kasper have been put into “diet corner” – limited grass, lots of hay, water in buckets, a salt lick and an electric fence. They also get chased around the paddock track every couple of days for exercise. This is the normal regime though – it exercises all 5 of us!
