This weekend we finally made it into real gardeners territory, we were gardening after dark! And none of the outside lights are currently working so it really was dark. The weekend seemed to disappear and I wanted to get things planted.
We went to the hardware shop on Saturday morning but had a family lunch and then did other things. We were going to take everyone in our car for lunch but figured not everyone would want to hang out with the chicken manure smell on a humid Sydney day.
Sunday we went strolling for council clean up treasures, finding a metal bucket to make a fire pit, a brand new foam roller with instructions and a 120kg hand trolley with a puncture that I'll repair.
Back to gardening, we bought two bags of soil (why are there so many different options even in just 'regular' soil), a bag of chicken manure, a block of organic sugar cane mulch and some blood and bone fertiliser.
PLUS plants! Two small trays of greens, borage and a lavender. The flowers are for the bees and the leaves for the humans (unless the snails and caterpillars decimate them first).
Projects completed
- carefully try to save the self-seeded tomato seedlings
- move some older top soil from one garden bed to another that needing filling
- add chicken manure and blood and bone to both garden beds
- add top soil to both garden beds
- plant!
- water in and celebrate
Before
After!
Now I hope the plants get settled in and produce.
In other news, if you ever questioned the fertility of a worm farm - this happened - any idea what it might be?
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This post is awesome! I saw the water bottle watering tech. Have you heard of blumats? Def not as sustainable and cheap like a plastic bottle. Its just the plastic always worries me personally.
Did you have plants bolt that you feed to your worm bin?
I haven't heard of blumats - but definitely interested - we are thinking about installing drop irrigation but these have been good so far. I understand the concern about plastic especially in the heat with its leeching potential.
I don't think we fed plant bolts, just kitchen scraps so I'm presuming it is the seeds from something from the kitchen
https://www.blumat.com/en
Whatever is probably came from an organic source... You probably could treat them like microgreens and eat them once they get their second nodes/4-6 inches long😛
Yay, gardening!! Weird to find things growing in a work farm. Happens in mine too.
It's so weird that they won't eat things that are alive, how do they know!?! 🤯