Well, OK, there’s not much of a garden there to start with. Every time we begin to think about making a good start something, and by that I mean rain, gets in the way. Sydney had an exceptionally wet summer, and while we have made a start, a lot of the hard clearing stuff out kind of work is done, we haven’t quite gotten around to the fun constructing bit. So really the rain has washed away our garden dreams!
The cleared front garden with makeshift pathway waiting for the new design to take shape… yes it’s still waiting! Though we have mulched it to prevent weed growth.
the mountain of weeds and unwanted plants cleared out of the garden.
After we mulched this garden ready for the plants and new pavers it rained, rained some more and when we thought it had finished it kept right on raining. Throw in there a hospital visit, a few birthdays, a bad back and a run of sniffles and the end result is that we still have a mulch garden without the schmick new pavers.
The Munchkins and I have propagated a whole lot of plants ready for our winter vegetable garden. We have broccoli, snow peas, sweet peas and normal peas as well as gourds and strawberries. They’re all ready to have a go at growing on their own in the big bad garden, but just as we had set aside today to make their new home, it has started raining. After one of the driest Mays on record, the one day we want to go out and get out hands dirty it pours! I had planned on blogging about our gardening successes for today, so damn you unpredictable weather patterns!
A plethora of peas
Beautiful broccoli
Gorgeous gourds
The seedlings are stacking up next to the pavers ready to go into the front yard, the 2 Kangaroo Paws that have been waiting way to long to let their roots run free and the tomato stakes that just completely missed their opportunity for last seasons tomatoes. The Drama Queen has been so proud of them, she carefully planted them (check that out here) and has been watching them sprout and grow. The Daredevil has been my chief watering can manager, and so far as a team we’ve done a good job. We just need the weather to come to the party and not rain on our parade.
So far my gardening activities have added up to a lot of weed pulling, a bit tomato taming and a bucket full of thinking and planning, basically not much doing.
For this weekend, rain rain go away, its time our garden had a play!
Sam
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