reflecting on the week

After asking Cindy to join our crew we had our Tuesday morning working bee.

Not all of us could make it, but those of us who could got straight into work.

Weeding mostly... But also noticing the changes that were happening.

The Scallopini Zucchini and one or two cucumbers had started on the mounds we set up before our trip away.

The carrot seed tape got put down too so we'll see how well that's going to do. The original had not worked in the GH so we pulled that up and put it under plastic to germinate. The onion haven't done very well in trays so also trying them in toilet paper tape. Fantastic space saving discovery that with a little water it sticks to the window well...

Given the kids were off school, they were offering to help, so we put them to work cleaning sprinklers and setting up the remaining tyres for the compost bin.

We hoed the tomato area and the potatoes and dug over the area for more beans.

That night Tania and Liz got out and created rows for the beans.
Next day Lin got in and planted said beans.

Following day V and Liz put in more beans and fluffed around with the irrigation system. There is a setup where you can suck up water from a drum- like a manure tea or the like - however that is not working. Went down to the local plumbing store and it looks like it's going to be a $50 expense that no one really has right now, so that is definitely one place that the Yates winnings (fingers crossed) could come in handy.

The pumpkin is ready to be planted, but we need to finish filling up the compost bin tyres so we can grow them vertically.

Pak Choi almost ready to go in too

My b-i-l, Justin rang one night and asked if he could bring some 'twigs' over to burn on our property. When he got here the trailer was full of compost... so my brain got ticking over and decided to place it in the area that we were about to dig over for silverbeet... yay... less work to be done :)

Next with my new wwoofer Franciska we level off the silverbeet patch, removing any raspberry saplings that were popping up.

Also planted a the Yates lettuce seeds, which is already popping its little heads out :)