How lucky are we!!! During the windstorms last weekend this tree branch must have missed the new shed by millimetres. This shed has only been up for 6 months and holds Doc's Wooden Toy stock!!!Weather highlights:
Warmer days, windy days with just a touch of frost!
Highest maximum temperature 30.5C
Lowest minimum temperature 0.5C.
With 1mm of rain that nearly got blown away!!
Propagation:
Potting on/up:
Beetroot
Bull's Blood
Golden Detroit
Chioggia
Chives
Parcel
Black Cumin
Cuttings:
Pomegranate Punica granatum info link
Lemon Myrtle Backhousia citriodora info link
Lemon Verbena Aloysia triphylla info link
Sweet Appleberry Billardera cymosa info link
Mushroom Plant Rungia klossii info link
Planting out:Mini Cauliflower
Celery
Into Wicking Boxes
Kale Red Bor
In between the Crimson Flowering Broad Beans.
It's getting very close to Spring planting time in my part of the world. We just have to get through a couple more frosts this weekend (including a -2C for Sunday argh!!)...then maybe some early planting trials...depending on the seven day forecast.
I've let the Barnevelders into the Old Chook Run area to have a final scratch through the mulch layer on the raised mound. Every time I check there are many European Earwigs in the mulch layer. The chooks will no doubt destroy the mound but it will be a small price to pay for being able to plant the Trombone seedlings there soon...maybe next week!!!
What's this??? 
It's time for the Cherry Tree to flower again.We dream of the fruit that ripens around Christmas.
The Apple Blossom smells wonderful!
The Grapevine is sprouting new life tooand will soon provide full shade over the back pergola.
We have Jostaberry flowers!!!
The first of the Asparagus is up!
you have lots going on in your garden,I was wondering about grape vines,about how long does it take to get them up high enough to grow over a pergola..i have 2 but they are only about a foot and a half high ?
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Oh and tell Doc the boys are still playing with there wooden trucks and garage and they are still going strong as :)
Give those grapevines time...ours have been in over 10 years. Most of that time we have been in drought conditions though. Things grow more slowly in dryer climates.
ReplyDeleteThe soil that they are growing in has been improved over the years too. When they were planted the soil was just a gravel driveway!
Leave some long stems (branches??) to encourage them to grow up. We haven't been pruning these for grapes as we wanted them for shade...but the grapes are a welcome bonus!
Doc is thrilled that your boys are still enjoying those toys!!
After my amateur pruning of my grape vine I am please to say that it to has just started to spring to life. Phew! For the first two years mine barely grew, then whoosh it went up the pergola like a rocket.
ReplyDeleteLast year this time we had a near miss experience with a whole tree falling down and just clipped the house. Couldn't get out the front door but no damage down. Miss the tree though.
Hi Jason
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear the grapevines doing so well!!
We are having limbs and whole trees come down regularly with these windstorms we keep on having.
We really miss the shade up here but it is what happens after 5 years of very dry weather.