It’s been a month since the Saturday we sowed seeds and planted things out with Christina. I must say it’s hard to believe it’s only been one month when I look at everything that’s happened in the garden. I was actually surprised to see how much we even got done that day after Christina left! In the past month:
- All the seeds sown have sprouted. Some have been thinned/transplanted as well.
- The Mediterranean Zone has been planted out. The woody herbs have been moved out of the herb garden, a fig faery has put in some fig cuttings, we’ve purchased and planted out 2 olives, a bay, and a lemon tree in the wine barrels.
- We’ve done some impressive mulching. And the wind has blown the sugar cane straw ALL OVER, expecially what was on the raspberries.
- We’ve turned an old swing set into a berry patch by forming a raised bed with sleepers and getting FiMBY to fill it with soil. We’ve planted out blueberries, red and white currants, a gooseberry, and a boysenberry.
- The buds have burst on the raspberries, cherry, mulberry, and chestnut.
- We’ve planted out artichokes.
- We’ve gotten rid of a tonne of garden waste that was pulled out.
- We’ve attended two FiMBY ‘extracurricular’ sessions and had our 1st Garden Craft session with Christina. (It seemed strange that she hadn’t been here for a month, but she has been watching progress online!)
- And to celebrate 1 month of Lottie’s Lot, we’ve even harvested a few greens for tonight’s dinner (but that will be a post all its own 🙂 ).
I’ve done a bit of work on this website too, tinkering with things to try to sort out what’s easiest. On Flickr, each raised garden bed and a few other categories have been set up as separate sets. These are also reflected in separate pages, which can be found by looking under ‘Garden Bed Diaries’ near the top of the page. I still haven’t played with it as much as I’d like too, but I’ve figured out how to integrate a google docs spreadsheet where I’m keeping the garden diary. Right now you can see all of it on the main Garden Bed Diaries page, but I’m trying to sort it out so on each individual bed’s page you can see the entries just for that bed. I haven’t finished adding entries to the garden diary, but I’ve had a start.
Soon Danny will be helping out getting the supports in for the Chinese gooseberry harem and renovating the arch over our front path for runner beans. And I haven’t given up the search for a good mulch that will work nicely with the raspberries and Mediterranean Zone herbs but be able to last through Hobart’s windy spring.
Of course I have a billion photos of progress over the past month. If you’re really interested, there’s links in each of the garden bed diary pages to the different sets on Flickr. As an example though, here’s Big Blue:
