In the Garden

[Booney]

My lawn is nuts, bright green and thick as all buggery. Mowed it last night and while it wasn't very long, almost completely filled the green bin

I mow weekly, I did think about skipping this week and I’m glad I didn’t. Full green bin of clippings still.

I also rate paying extra to council and having two green bins. Worth it.

I'd rather mow every week and not change the height setting and take 40 minutes than mow once a fortnight and have to wrestle through longer grass and take over an hour.

[Brodlach]

That’s my thought too


I just didn’t think it had grown much this week, I was wrong. Our neighbors also have giant gum trees so the nuts, leaves and sticks need to be cleaned up often. We get afternoon gully winds

[Brodlach]

Michael Keenlan on 5AA saying veggies are about 4 weeks behind schedule due to the weather

[DOC]

Picked my first beans this morning. Still picking sugar snap peas from a second planting.

Tomatoes have some flowers as do the capsicums. Sweetcorn slowish. Cucumbers very slow.

[Lightning McQueen]

Picked my first beans this morning. Still picking sugar snap peas from a second planting.

Tomatoes have some flowers as do the capsicums. Sweetcorn slowish. Cucumbers very slow.

I'm the other way round, have heaps of tommies not ripening yet though, cueys going ballistic.

[Brodlach]

Anyone else mow yesterday afternoon? Boy was it a tough slog. Grass so thick and so humid.

[Booney]

Anyone else mow yesterday afternoon? Boy was it a tough slog. Grass so thick and so humid.

Bung knee so drew on the kids* to mow last week, which they did, will need one in the next 4 or 5 days though.

What I do need to do is get the poison out as there's still some winter weeds making a nuisance of themselves around the yard and doing so pretty quickly!

[Kahuna]

What I do need to do is get the poison out as there's still some winter weeds making a nuisance of themselves around the yard and doing so pretty quickly!

Got my sprayer out this morning, no concentrate left so a trip to Bunnings. Load up, get half way round and realise the sprayer is cracked on the bottom and leaving a solid trail behind me. Interesting patterns to emerge in the grass i suspect.

[Booney]

Mowed Wednesday after work, spread some worm (s)hit fertilizer over the lawns and some slow release fertilizer on the tomatoes and corn.

Chuck it down huey!

[Brodlach]

Mowed Wednesday after work, spread some worm (s)hit fertilizer over the lawns and some slow release fertilizer on the tomatoes and corn.

Chuck it down huey!

Booney when he gets home

[amber_fluid]

I mowed this morning.
Perfect timing!

[DOC]

I mowed this morning.
Perfect timing!

Working from home?

[amber_fluid]

I mowed this morning.
Perfect timing!

Working from home?

Absolutely!

[Booney]

Looking a million bucks now.

[wenchbarwer]

Yeah, mine looks like the G on grand final day after I mow it.

Then the dogs add the finishing touches...

[DOC]

So Unley Oval then?

[Booney]

Planted the second wave of tomatoes yesterday, threw in some Thai Basil as companions and Bunnings had various chilli's on sale for $4 a seedling so put two of them in for fun, one was a 3/10 on the hot scale and one 6/10 which, while too much for me will be perfect for the lad as he loves that sort of thing.

I've seriously never had corn going as well as this lot is, I think the down pours we have had in recent weeks while not a lot in totality but the fact we've had a few days of solid showers kicked them off perfectly, they are thriving.

[Lightning McQueen]

Mowed Wednesday after work, spread some worm (s)hit fertilizer over the lawns and some slow release fertilizer on the tomatoes and corn.

Chuck it down huey!

Wouldn't their poo's be really small?

[Lightning McQueen]

Planted the second wave of tomatoes yesterday, threw in some Thai Basil as companions and Bunnings had various chilli's on sale for $4 a seedling so put two of them in for fun, one was a 3/10 on the hot scale and one 6/10 which, while too much for me will be perfect for the lad as he loves that sort of thing.

I've seriously never had corn going as well as this lot is, I think the down pours we have had in recent weeks while not a lot in totality but the fact we've had a few days of solid showers kicked them off perfectly, they are thriving.

I tried transplanting one of my tomato plants last week but he looks as though he's not gonna pull through, I shall rip him out on the weekend and chuck a newbie in the pot.

I've learnt to not be so ridiculous with the cucumbers, I've gotta keep telling myself that it's not the size that matters.

[Brodlach]

My tomatoes are odd, bushes nowhere near as tall as usual but so much fruit on them.

We’ve had the same chilli bush growing for 4 years, about loaded with fruit