Spring!

So, we're 3 weeks into spring and not a single posting has happened - what sort of a farmer am I?

Well, its not that I've been doing NOTHING in the garden, just not much - the recent arrival of twin babies seems an appropriate excuse for that...

So lets see..

Remember the Anniversary Orange Tree? Well, I've finally got it in the ground. After hours of digging through rocks in the first chosen location, I gave up and decided to chop down the ugly shrub out the back and replace it with the orange tree. The piccie below shows the action. On the far left, you can see the remainder of the truck of the ugly shrub and on the right is its carcass. The was all eventually run through the mulcher.

You can also see the baby orange tree with a wire cage around it to keep it safe from the dogs. It may be a little close to the house, but hopefully this will be someone else's problem in a few years when we move out to a larger house!

The vegie garden out the front has been turned over and is resting before I get some summer crops started. I'm running out of time very quickly to get these going and may need to get some seedlings rather than wait for seeds to grow

The back vegie garden continues to grow. The broccoli is nearly waist height but seems to flower too quickly and the heads that form are nice and tightly packed - I'll need to do some homework on why this is!

The lettuce just doesn't stop growing and provides a constant supply for salads that are now being made as the weather warms up

I spent the other day in the front yard cutting grass and picking weeds. There was apparently about 3 or 4 different types of weed in the lawn, bindii, some sort of weed with burs and some other junk - all was painstakingly pulled by hand as I'm pretty sure the bindii sprays kill this lawn

Oh yeah, and I've also pruned all the roses including the standards out the back. These are all now getting new growth and so far looking quite healthy.

Other plants that are now flowering include the orange pigface (I'll have to thin these out soon!), the azaleas (white and maroon) the large shrub on the corner out the front (need to get a name for this!) and some other bulb plants out the front (jonquils??)

Well that's about it for the minute - Will aim to keep posts a bit more regular as some more routine starts coming back to our lives and as I get more time for the gardens

Seeya!