Back to my garden :)

So my last post was about Heronswood and this one is about my garden :)

Yesterday i planted my new fig and staked it, and i topdressed all of my fruit trees with a mix of cow manure, chicken manure, mushroom compost and rock dust. The aim of this is to  fertilize and get the plants ready for spring and new growth. I also sowed seeds

In the propogator (sp?)

• Coneflower purple (echinacea)
• Red Kale
• Lettuce mignonette
• Silverbeet (same colours as in previous post)
• Broccoli sessantina grossa

And straight in the ground

• Pink and blue mix of flowers
• Nasturtium Milkmaid
• Poppy ladybird (vibrant red with black centre)
• Red onion

Today i tidied up the garden, did some weeding, replanted some flowers that were in the way and moved a whole lot of pots around :) I also started on a cage type contraption for all my berry plants so the birds dont find them....i didnt have very much trouble last year but there were not as many of them and they were spread out...and there were less birds!!! so here it is in its beginning stages

As i said very early stages....lol...i needs my husbands help hammering the stupid stakes into the ground and devising some sort of support :) and i need more bird netting for the front :) It was a beautiful sunny day today :) perfect for this sort of work.

I also manured where the watermelons, beans and corn is going to go.

He is a pic of half the garden

I am considering adding another tyre for potatoes :) that would take us up to 6 in the garden!

Believe it or not my garden is starting to flower...the blueberries have had closed flowers for ages now but they are starting to open up



Blueberries




Rosemary




Flowers




Orchid

Last week i repotted my rosemary into the pot that held my rhubarb. I chucked the rubard in the corner as i was sure it had gotten crown rot. Which meant i thought it was dead...anyway i pick it up today and turn it over and what to i find! its sprouted again...lol....so i replanted it in a permenant position in the garden so it could stretch its legs



Well see how it goes :) the pot was really to small for it so hopefully it will take off!

Thats all for today!