Arrived back in the outback this morning following my weekly trip to town for supplies and disposals (and a 6 minute hot shower) armed with a new wheelbarrow.
My word this woman knows how to treat herself - last week new boots, this week a wheelbarrow🙄... then spent the day moving my slash piles to somewhere waaaaaay down the back. Lots of trips with a wheelbarrow (lost the will to count); lots of pitchfork action.
The new aggregated pile will, I hope rot down a fair bit by spring at which time I will plant next season's pumpkins all over it.
About halfway through the moving process by this evening, I realize there will likely be 2 pumpkin farms and a third pile will be built of stuff that gets cleared over the winter. I've moved the easy stuff. Now I am into the tangled mess of gorse and broom that my Bro ripped out of the roadside ditch with a digger. It didn't get mulched by the contractor, now has blackberry growing through the pile weaving it all together, and is strongly resistant to being picked apart with a pitchfork.
Gaaaarrrrggggh.😡
Rain is forecast. I look forward to that. I expect my paltry vegetable garden does too. I'll spend a wet day knitting and planning my veg seed beds.
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| The Chinese cabbages are doing well. |
You will have lots of pumpkins to enjoy.
ReplyDeletePlant zucchini’s in the third pile. All different types. You’ll never go hungry
If you have a zucchini plant.
Your doing so well. Good on you
Hari OM
ReplyDeleteThe sooner you get that backhoe the better... I don't want to be reading that the brambles have won... and other than pumpkin could you grow melons? YAM xx
I don't suppose torching those brambles is an option?
ReplyDeleteI wish. We are big on fire bans over here.(and clean air zones)
DeleteI like the idea of a pumpkin patch!!
ReplyDeleteThat third pile looks a nightmare...bramble bashing needed.
Your Cabbages are coming on nicely..what sort of winter will you get there?
Winters - depends who you ask and what they have experienced to compare it to. I would say mild. I expect to grow citrus fruit, tamarilllos and avocado's here. To me that means winter is pretty.much a non-event (just fewer daylight hours)
DeleteI thought I became the pitchfork queen, and had never used one before Hurricane Milton, but I cede to you the crown of Queen of Pitchforking. Wow! you are amazing. i love the idea of a pumpking patch, and would like to have a squash patch, wonder how that would do on my humps
ReplyDeletenope, can't grow them in full Florida sun, need partial shade
ReplyDeleteThat's a nice shiny new wheelbarrow. Is it lighter than those old heavy metal ones?? Those were heavy even before you filled them.
ReplyDeleteI'm putting weeds and kitchen scraps on a big pile and will give it a covering of dirt. That's where I'll be scattering our pumpkin/squash seeds soon. I usually have a wonderful harvest of leaves. Hoping for a punkin or 2 this summer
I guess you could always eat the flowers if it only has male blooms.
DeleteYou'll have muscles on your muscles at this rate. I can imagine the pleasure of acquiring a new wheelbarrow - all smart and shiny and clean.
ReplyDeleteChinese cabbages always do well. If you can, if you are interested in it, miniature silverbeet named "bright lights" is another good one, mine grow through winter and are quite tough.
ReplyDeleteI have Bright Lights. I didn't realize it was miniature. I think I will get some plants of regular silver beet too.
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