Exhausted but exhilarated. 3 spud boxes planted, 1 no dig garden in place to do its thing, 3 filthy kids asleep, 1 stuffed husband and 1 stuffed and excited me.
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- It’s approximately 3 or so metres long and probably 1.2-1.5 wide. Poifick!
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- We had just enough compost for a second layer on top of the lucerne on the garden bed.
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- 3 spud beds
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- We removed the bottom board and then replaced it with screws so we can take off the board and empty out the spuds and soil in 1 go. This means we can reuse the garden boxes year after year without worrying about spuds re-shooting because with didn’t find them or concerns about the soil harbouring potato diseases (we can compost the old soil or throw it on the other garden bed).
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- Spuds covered with compost then more lucerne.
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- Planting out the spuds in the crates. A layer of lucerne mulch, a layer of compost and then the spuds.
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- Watering it all in with my little helper Allegra and using daddy’s pressure sprayer as a hose extender.
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- Nice thick mulch layer
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- No dig garden bed layers. Newspaper, compost, lucerne mulch
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- No dig garden bed. Lay down a lot of wet newspaper or cardboard, carefully overlapping to make sure the grass can’t come through (won’t work over kikuyu grass) then layer with soil and mulch.
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- To my surprise I actually SAW this fellow whilst we were digging out the compost and was able to rescue him without injuring him. Much more welcome than the 10cm long centipede we found a minute later.
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- Neighbours snuck through the fence to come and have a sticky-beak
Found a frog today in the trailer load of compost – a welcome gift and made me think of your post 23thorns. 60 seconds later I’m screaming and heading for the hills at the unwanted 10cm long centipede also found in the compost. I did muck back in after its demise. Bleuch!
Met our farmer neighbours and their older son who live behind us (the chickens owners), Martin helped out a new friend in town and the kitchen has had its final measure up and the new kitchen will be ordered tomorrow. Things are really moving now. Hoping for a quiet day at home tomorrow which I will need to wash all the filthy muddy clothes! lol
Frogs are fine. For some reason, though, centipedes are bloody terrifying- much worse than spiders or scorpions.
I agree that centipedes are far worse than spiders. I’m leery of spiders but not actually afraid of them. I couldn’t however read a few of your posts… the insect pictures had me reeling back from the laptop screen! A recovering phobia there.
I live to please!
Mucking in and bums up feeds the soul and you are finding a sense of community…welcome to the country girl! 🙂
Yes, we are definitely finding our community. I haven’t known my neighbours like this since I was a child growing up! Between our neighbours and broader Ballan community, and you all on here, we have an incredible community about us now. Very blessed.
Yikes about the centipede! All sounds grand though.
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