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.