"Chookie" wrote in message
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"0tterbot" wrote:

happy new year everyone :-)

we are bringing in the new year with a lot of mulching, fertilising,
planting out and tidying up of dead things from spring (everything got
out
of hand before xmas when i couldn't find the time to do anything much).
the
veggie patch has had a makeover & is looking exceedingly organised &
lovely
(i like an organised veggie garden, me).

Waaaah! Mine is being strangled by kikuyu! I have been hitting bits of
it
with Roundup if I can manage not to kill food plants...

well, call me hopelessly naive, but i thought you can just pull out kikuyu!
(clearly i have never had kikuyu myself). i'm always battling with couch
grass. it completely boggles my mind the way it appears not to grow anywhere
at all except into vegetable beds or other places it is not wanted.


we are really pleased with how much progress we've made in the
nearly-year-and-a-half since we came here to a virtual dead-zone, & now
feel
we can take things a bit more slowly. which is good, as the weather's
turned
HOT at last.

so, what are you all doing in the garden atm? if you're all having beers
on
the verandah & just looking at it's lush loveliness, i shall die of envy
g

Having cuppas and morosely eyeing the rank kikuyu isn't what you meant, is
it?

hmmm........... no. that wouldn't make me at all envious.


Though I must admit I am pleased by the cucumbers. And there are signs
that
tomorrow might bring our first tomatoes -- just tiddlers, though.

i have a cherry roma (1) that is about to be ripe!! it's very exciting. at
one point i didn't think i'd get any plants at all coming up, never mind
fruit. now i have plants everywhere (how do they DO that?!)
kylie