In between doing my Story Book Quilts I am trying to get the garden in order. This is not a small job as we live on a 1/2 acre of land and I have come to realise how little space our home takes up.
At the beginning of this year I began clearing the land, to the joy of the garbage man we had created 74 truck loads of garbage, to remover rubbish here they charge by the truck load.
Now that most of the garden has been prepared it is down to the planting and bringing in soil as we live on a sand island.
In the month of January we transplanted just on 100 plants, of which, at the time of posting, 2 have died. It is a little tough right now as it is our winter, and as such we get very little rain. The only time it has rained is the night we took shingles of the roof to replace them - as Jim Carrey said "that's how the cookie crumbles".
During January SP made me a herb/vegetable raised garden from the recycled wood, belonging to the old stair case, he built me a new stair case that does not move when you walk onto it and twice the width. The garden is now producing mint, parsley, basil and onions can not wait for the rest to pop up there heads.
Today I moved 37 barrel loads of top soil, had to also put said soil into the barrel, dug 37 holes and planted, mulched, fertilised and watered 37 plants.
Thank God for a full moon as I was out till 8pm finishing my work, I can not believe it now takes an 1 1/2 hours to water the garden, can not wait till they "have gripped" and are surviving on themselves.
The place is beginning to take shape I hope that most of the plants survive, if they do they should blossom during Spring and Summer with the rain and heat.
Mother Nature what a wonderful friend she can be, thank you XXoo S
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