Gardening
Write a short account of getting started. Post pictures.
Remember those pictures I posted of a dirty hole, subsequently filled with logs, sticks, and covered in hay?
This is that hole a few months later, as the plants are starting to come into Spring.
I planted:
- peppers
- chilli
- coriander
- sage
- aubergine
- vietnamese mint
- basil
- silverbeet
There’s also a mystery plant whose species I have forgotten. Need to wait till it fruits or is bigger to remember what it was.
I’ll be digging garden beds in a few days. Well, to be accurate, I will be placing a few raised garden beds of the corrugated iron sort. Nothing fancy, just 40cm x 100cm x 200cm, and I’ll spend most the day just trying to wheel barrow the awful thin dirt we have here to just one of those beds, layered down with lucern. This will repeat itself for as long as it takes to fill all three beds.
The “to-do” list I’ve been using is getting a little shorter every couple of days.
I’ve taken a bland looking sheet(s) of particle board and made a lovely new nesting box for two of my girls. I even made a privacy partition to keep them apart. NOTE: I had to remove it later, they didn’t share the space well with it in place. They still squawk over laying rights most days.
Ginger, galangal, and turmeric.
Two of those three are actually pretty hard to get fresh around here. Galangal and turmeric are rarely for sale as roots. In fact, I’ve never seen galangal fresh, and only once found fresh turmeric.
I bought that turmeric, cut it up a bit and planted it into some soil. I did the same to some fresh ginger at the same time into much the same pots - then forgot which was which.
Mr Gobbles is getting laid! A bush turkey has been coming around here for a few weeks. He initially came about 8 months back, but after my brother’s imbecile dog chased him off we didn’t see him again for several months.
I’ve been slowly gaining his trust and have been able to hand feed him at times.
He’s been super-busy the last 3 week making an insanely large nest from all the loose leaf matter on the ground. Bush turkeys do this for one reason, a reason most males are able to relate to…getting laid.