A sunny day, finally

​I had been waiting on a day that wasn’t raining to go out and continue in the garden 

Monday, of last week, I had purchased my seed potatoes. And they were still in the box waiting. 

Today was the day 

I headed outside and started with the last large wicking bed 

This was what it looked like. 

Yup very neglected, just like the rest of the back yard. 

I weeded and used a pitchfork to break up the soil. 

I then added one packet of seed potatoes. 

This one is called Nicola 

Once I had placed the potatoes on top I then cover it all with compost mixed soil 

Now it looks like this. 

I sent hubby to start on the second raised garden bed 

It looked like this. By the time he had got through half I had finished and came over to help 

Once again we weeded and used the pitchforks to break the soil up. It have become compacted 

The two remaining packets of potatoes were planted. 

Red lady and Dutch cream

We covered them all with the same compost mix and mulched 

After watering the mulch, it’s so dry a small puff of wind blew it off.  

I then turned to the second raised bed 

I had purchased these on Monday’s fill in shop. They’re small with short handles, perfect for me. 

I was able to carefully get under the netting to hoe all the weeds that had started to sprout 

And in the area in back that has still to be planted out. 

I then just wandered around seeing all the growth. 

We even have a few asparagus spears coming up. In mid winter. This is how mild our winter has been 

Some of my Christmas cactus, happily flowering away 

We still have lots to do. Hunny will use one of his “toys” to lift the blue barrel wicking pots and will take the round poles out, replacing them with square timber. They will be easier to whipper snip around. 

I’ve been saving all cardboard boxes and we will lay them all around and then heavily mulch. 

This part of the project will take a few weeks to finish. 

Once that’s done, I’ll turn my attention to the rose garden 

Hopefully by spring we will have it all back to looking like a garden. Instead of an overgrown jungle.