Winter, that's a bit of a joke. Although there's a cool breeze today, outside it's quite warm enough for a t-shirt. It's good growing weather, warm days and cool nights.
This is the bed I had prepared last week and is now planted with broad beans, Asian cabbage, spinach, collards, and too hard to see, calendulas and heartsease. Radish seeds in the middle space.
This is a new bed I finished a couple of days ago, after breaking my back removing weeds and hauling soil. It's now home to snow peas, a couple more broad bean plants, some bok choy and marigolds. Radish seeds in the "holes" in the mulch.
Homemade climbing trellis for the peas, using long branches picked up on my doggy walks.
When the sun gets too hot for the tender seedlings, the trellis supports shade cloth. This area used to be in shade in the afternoon, but is now in full sun since the jacaranda tree fell.
Potatoes doing well, they've been hilled up twice since I took this picture, and I've nearly unrolled all the way to the top of the bags, they quite like being in the sun all day .
***
The chickens have been noticing the absence of the jacaranda as well.......not only had their run become very hot without it, but they had lost their "jungle" overhead, which made them feel safe, and so they wouldn't venture out into the open space. So I made them a shady jungle bower from the broken branches that had to be trimmed off the mulberry tree. Not pretty but it works.
Spangly Lola, golden Juno and a black blob which is Brenna, happily hidden away....I think they like it.
Today, I need to check on the newest seedlings of bok choy and kale and see if they're ready to plant out, start some more seeds and I know there are tomatoes ready to be potted on.....all that and some sewing to hopefully finish off the Seed Packet quilt will fill the day quite nicely.
...............until next time
