I actually did some gardening!

[Chookie]

Not what I expected to be doing at this point; I am waiting for a baby to pop
out and haven't felt up to doing much for a few *months*, which has frustrated
my internal gardener no end. Anyway, Baby No 2 is due some time this week, so
I think this might have to do until I am in a better shape for gardening.

Anyway, in the last week or two I manged to plant out all the plants I bought
at the Mt Annan Plant Sale, trim the excess trunks from my Sydney Red Gum
(maybe it will grow upwards now!), cut a broken branch from a Fringe Wattle,
plant out some dwarf sweet peas, and get my 4yo son to plant some anemones in
front of them.

My beloved hubby has chopped down some dead banana plants (though when he
discovered one had a giant huntsman living in it, he left it there for some
reason!), harvested some of our pumpkins, chopped up big dead branches into
smaller pieces, cut down the dead stalks on the stasta daisies, pulled out
feral Parramatta wattle runners from behind the shed, trimmed our overhanging
branches for next door, and cleaned the weeds off the driveway.

We have a startling number of pumpkins -- Galeaux D'Eysines and Queensland
Blues. Eight have been harvested and we probably have another 6-8 still on
the vines. And a family where hubby "tolerates" pumpkin baked and only
"likes" it in soup. Of course, for the last few years, I haven't had a single
pumpkin seed come up -- then they all went nuts this year!

What has everyone else been up to lately?

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)

"In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is
nothing worth being eager or vigorous about."
Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893.

[len gardener]

g'day chookie,

well can't share in your problem as such but as for the garden i've
got all my brassicas in potatoes are up or still emerging (some slow
ones there), naerly all garlic i planted grew app' 500 or so corms,
most onions of all sorts of varieties are up. tomatoes are on their
last legs.

got the frost protection on those that need it just gotta settle back
and wait for winter to come and go quickly i hope and moderate as well
will go along way to convert me as a fan of winter.

len

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[SG1]

Went to Brissy and had part of my shoulder removed. The SWMBO would not let
me out this morning to fertilise the cabbage. Ah well 6 weeks is not toooooo
loong.
Jim

"Chookie" > wrote in message
...
> Not what I expected to be doing at this point; I am waiting for a baby to
> pop
> out and haven't felt up to doing much for a few *months*, which has
> frustrated
> my internal gardener no end. Anyway, Baby No 2 is due some time this
> week, so
> I think this might have to do until I am in a better shape for gardening.
>
> Anyway, in the last week or two I manged to plant out all the plants I
> bought
> at the Mt Annan Plant Sale, trim the excess trunks from my Sydney Red Gum
> (maybe it will grow upwards now!), cut a broken branch from a Fringe
> Wattle,
> plant out some dwarf sweet peas, and get my 4yo son to plant some anemones
> in
> front of them.
>
> My beloved hubby has chopped down some dead banana plants (though when he
> discovered one had a giant huntsman living in it, he left it there for
> some
> reason!), harvested some of our pumpkins, chopped up big dead branches
> into
> smaller pieces, cut down the dead stalks on the stasta daisies, pulled out
> feral Parramatta wattle runners from behind the shed, trimmed our
> overhanging
> branches for next door, and cleaned the weeds off the driveway.
>
> We have a startling number of pumpkins -- Galeaux D'Eysines and Queensland
> Blues. Eight have been harvested and we probably have another 6-8 still
> on
> the vines. And a family where hubby "tolerates" pumpkin baked and only
> "likes" it in soup. Of course, for the last few years, I haven't had a
> single
> pumpkin seed come up -- then they all went nuts this year!
>
> What has everyone else been up to lately?
>
> --
> Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
> (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)
>
> "In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is
> nothing worth being eager or vigorous about."
> Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893.