Spider webs
No frost here yet but mornings are getting a bit chilly. I harvested my last zucchini a day or two ago and pulled the plants even though they were still making fresh new growth (but no flowers). Besides I needed their bit of garden to be reshaped as part of a drainage plan. I'm trying to redirect the run-off rainwater that comes sheeting down from the properties above us in heavy rain storms. We get three or four a year such events that threaten inundation. Inundation might be an exaggeration - the water continues downhill - I just hate slopping around in ankle deep water where it pools in my paths and parking places en route.
Topsoil was dug out of the nacsent driveway so that some hardfill could be laid to reduce risk of trucks getting stuck. I'm slowly moving about 6 cubic metres of soil a wheelbarrow load at a time, picking out rocks and roots as I go, and using it to reshape the veg garden; making low patches into high patches with the hope/plan that water will be directed to run into the stream bed at the northerly end of the garden (watering the olive and lemon grove on its way).
wow, earth mover now added to you resume. You are a true pioneer woman. Tommy Turtle turned out to be a red ear slider turtle not the indestructive, gopher, and one blogger said her dogs delight in chewing the shell of sliders to pieces so now she has to remove them to another place.. Tommy appears to have left the yard.
ReplyDeleteIf sliders are alligator-proof, that dog must be some fearsome creature😵💫🤣
DeleteJust caught up on all the challenges you've been facing. I think you are doing a great job adapting and moving forward!! I also think those are some beautiful spider webs!
ReplyDeleteHari OM
ReplyDeleteHmmmm with careful planning, you could have your own natural irrigation system going on there! Those webs are quite something... YAM xx
You have such vision and foresight. Such things would occur to me, if at all, months later!
ReplyDeleteEarth construction with a definite purpose! Just keep thinking of new vege beds
ReplyDeleteIt’s looking lovely. Water, here we either have too much or not enough. There is no middle ground
ReplyDeleteJust catching up…..
ReplyDeleteHoping your little ‘shack’ becomes legal before your big house is built
This place is beautiful. The shift into autumn tasks feels very grounded, clearing the last of the zucchini while the plants are still pushing growth, then moving straight into the more practical work of reshaping land and thinking through how water moves across it. That slow wheelbarrow rhythm, bit by bit improving the levels and guiding runoff toward a better path, has a steady, patient logic to it, the sort of work that quietly changes how a garden behaves over time.
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