What To Do Today?

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Comment by Miriam Tong on August 21, 2012 at 1:05pm

Not a bad haul, given that I've been very busy lately and haven't even been to the garden for over a week!  My Celery is the most prolific thing in the garden, finally starting to get tired of it.  Any North-West Aucklanders need/want some celery? :)

Since taking a composting course with Trish Allen, originally of Rainbow Valley Farm, I have been turning my compost fortnightly to get things moving and it's worked a treat.  I don't have a particularly big pile though, so it's not too much like hard work :)

Comment by Rex Morris on August 20, 2012 at 8:38pm

Being lazy I never turn my compost - I found years ago that it is just hard work for no real gain. I am a bit doubtful about the usefulness of turning - would be most interested to hear what others do.

Comment by Miriam Tong on August 20, 2012 at 9:47am

My TO DO today is to turn my compost, doing fortnightly turns and it's coming along nicely :)  well worth the effort!

Comment by Miriam Tong on August 20, 2012 at 9:46am

Hi everyone,

After doing a big landscaping job, we have a big sack of over 200 planter bags!  They're mainly size PB3 and some PB8.  I live in Waimauku, if anyone would like them (or some of them) I'm keen so save them from the landfill.

Hope to hear from you soon :)

Miriam

Comment by Kali on August 18, 2012 at 2:36pm

making marmalade from our lovely little grapefruit today, wish me luck, not sure if my pot is big enough  as I doubled the recipe lol.

beautiful spring weather here, getting lots of weeding done

Comment by Rex Morris on August 15, 2012 at 9:37pm

TomatoNotes: planted another lot of seeds - 6 Big Beef and 6 San marzano.

Comment by Lynn on August 15, 2012 at 9:08am

Sounds like fun, Rex. 

As well as my sugar snap peas popping up, so too have some of the broad beans and a couple of tomato seeds have germinated. 

Looking forward to my trip north.

Comment by Rex Morris on August 13, 2012 at 7:25pm

I joined the eTeam at a school today - I am working with the gardening group. We had a look a the garden, talked about what to do to get it ready, then poured over Kings catalogue picking seeds of the sorts of food we would like to eat. Next week we have to draw a plan of the garden. The kids are so enthusiastic.

Comment by Rex Morris on August 12, 2012 at 9:39pm

Tomato notes:  first lot of seeds in today: 

- 6 beefstake

- 6 black from Tula

Comment by Kali on August 12, 2012 at 11:17am

our asparagus has its first few purple shoots coming through, this year I may pick a few to eat, i just tucked a few young crowns of green ones in amongst them so in future years will be a bi-coloured bed :) I spent a couple of hours cruising between jobs in the garden this morning, i have no more excuses for boredom now the weather is warmer, looking forward to lots of seed sowing now that my kings order has arrived and I sorted out lots of my own seed to sow too.

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