A learning curve...

This is a picture of my vegetable garden as it was being built. Lots of plans for this small space.

This was taken the last week. It will be very full soom as there is a lot of seedlings in this garden.

I will have to really keep building the soil up. Make it strong and healthy to grow me some food....

Daisies. These are awesome cut flowers - long stems and last for days.

Lemons on the lemon tree. Black sooty mold as you can see as well.

Some Hands by Dave Gunning

Have a watch of this video clip and listen to the words of this really great song. We saw Dave live at the Woodford Folk Festival in December. He is from Canada. I purchased the childrens book and the cd.

wet...wet....wet.....

I have been busy doing nothing really. Well yesterday I went out and about and did some groceries and was very thankful to get home. The weather was wild with some extremely heavy rain. So today was a stay inside day again. I have started to sort through my craft/office. It is the last room to be organised and sorted out but I feel that this will be slowest because as I tidy I want to finish each project that I have set aside or started. I will post photos as I complete each thing. I am nearly finished another sign and a gift mug I am making for someone so I will post some pics of them tomorrow.

My vegetable garden is okay. I have lots of button squash on the plants but they have been affected with powdery mildew. The extreme heat and then the wet, wet weather. I thinned the leaves out and cut all of the affected foliage of the plants but they have now got it on the other leaves. I think the only thing to do is pull them out but I want to see if I can get the last of the crop of them. I have fertilised them but it is hard while it is raining so heavy. I have new plants coming up and I am hoping that the whole lot do not get this. I have read that I can make a milk solution and put on the leaves but that it needs to be organic milk. I will get some in town tomorrow and try that as soon as the rain stops long enough to spray them. Something must be right in that garden though because I have seen quite a few lady beetles.

(click on photo to zoom in a bit closer)

I am not sure what these grubs are called but the last time a few weeks ago that we were expecting rain Mick captured this photo of all of this wiggly grubs joined together and climbing down the tree and I think they buried themselves under ground.

Today we went for a walk down the back and saw these grubs on the ground under a tree. We have just had 66mm rain today and that was after about 125mm in the previous day and a half. We think these ones were washed out of the tree.

I made this sign today to put into our back garden.

Ahh and I made a birthday card and wrapped a present ready to give my brother in a few weeks time.

Cheers till' tomorrow,

Wendy