The state of the garden

Work on the garden continues ... slowly. We picked up quite a few plants at one of the local school fetes a couple of weeks ago, and they are starting to let me know where they should be planted. The vege boxes have been filled: cardboard followed by newspaper, then bales of meadow hay, covered with a layer of soil mixed with chook poo (on special at Masters), followed by a layer of soil mixed with blood and bone.

The seedlings went in next: pumpkin, climbing beans, sugarsnap peas, lettuce, capsicum, eggplant (both kinds), zucchini, chillis, tomatoes, and watermelon.

Bed 1: mostly tomatoes and other salad vegetables

Bed 2: beans and peas, zucchini and eggplant

New pavers, now surrounded by Hutchinsia Ice Cube
(some sad little half-dead things from a school fete),
Japanese blood grass on the left, and Myoporum
Parvifolium Purpurea on the right in the shade.
The Ice Cube groundcover may or may not
survive; it's looking good, though

Le Hoa's blueberry bush continues to do well

The cherry tree with the healthiest crop

Half-grown cherries up close; we might
even get to eat some this year.

The nature strip planted with herbs and strawberries.
We've also put in hundreds of seeds*, which are
starting to come up: I have seen dill and
nasturtiums. Let's hope that all the others sprout as well.

One of the very beautiful Kangaroo Paw bushes
planted beside the front steps. I saw a
yellow one the other day .... will
have to find a space somewhere in
the garden for one of those, too.

* When I say hundreds of seeds, I mean literally hundreds of seeds of all kinds: feverfew, poppies, camomile, wild flowers, nasturtium, verbena, dill, alyssum, nemophila, nigella, bunny tails, dichondra, forget-me-knot, and Swan River daisies. Hardly any have come up yet, so I am wondering if some were blown away by the wind, and how many the birds ate. Surely some will have survived ...