Reused fence post

I've always thought this to be pretty cool. A house in Kensington.


The fence post must've been eaten off by termites. Why not turn it upside down and reuse it?

A sort of natural modern art.

Crossover tomatoes

Bragging rights for a vegetable gardener.



My first vine ripened tomato - from under plastic - for this season, dovetailing in with the last of last season's which I managed to hang on through winter.

So that's a first for me.

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Let nature take over

For the week I'll let nature do its stuff. I cut the lawns back to the lowest setting and got some "bounce back" organic pellets onto them, then 10mm of rain.

I also got the last parts of the first veg bed in, it now has rocket, lettuce, broccoli, spinach, silverbeet, broccoli, beetroot and the first four tomatoes.


I'm trying something new with tomatoes, growing them out through a picket fence on a north face. That'll let the sun hit the foliage, but keep the sun off the soil during the major heat of summer. We'll see.

But for now it's raining and I've got well over a week's work to do. So I'll let nature run with it for a week.

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Orchid, a year's work

Keep them for a year and sometimes they reward you. This one did this year.


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Damping off, live and learn

These hyacinths were looking good, flower spikes getting nice and high. Warm weather they were getting a little droopy. So I gave them a pretty hard hit with a sprinkler. Not so clever. I think that water sitting on those high surface area flowers has allowed the bacteria/fungus to go crazy and the flowers have gone all brown and slimy.





Live and learn. Next year water the soil and not the top part. I'll be able to get the bulbs to recover by feeding them with high potassium fertiliser as they're dying down. An early lesson for this year.


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I like a spider

Always have. They're much feared and hated, but mostly they're harmless to humans and they are an important part of the circle of life.

And I like the way they work. They create a beautiful work of art each night, and pull it down each morning. And they sit and wait. For as long as they need to. And when it's time to get busy, when an insect hits the web, they move. But if there's no need to rush, they don't.

And if someone comes though and destroys their web, they simply rebuild it.

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Heavy pruning woodyard on hold

Half done. All the major limbs taken off now. Much of the small stuff ground up and in the compost with the large stuff cut for next year's fire. But I will take the straight pieces and use them as posts for a little fence I plan to put in the backyard.


It'll be cute, but the cutting of it is a job for next weekend.

Handy that the week flies by so quickly.

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