Nov 9, 2021
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Ricketts Avenue. Leading contender for the Inner West's shortest and narrowest named street, with no addresses, and no room for cars. 55m/60yds long. Glebe.
Garden Report 21.02.02
Blooming: mini daffodils, hyacinths, various roses on south facing, dead nettle, camellias, rhododendron, fruitless plum, yellow pompoms, some of the hedge berries (blackberries, blueberries, misc. Vaccinium/Gaylussacia), rosemary and drum roll please (!) those tenacious straw flowers I shoved into the hedge!
Pruning: roses, ferns, fruit trees and anybody else that looks like it needs a haircut or whacked back. I’m in the mood.
Harvesting: only rosemary as needed fresh but in a week? 2? or 3? pea pods from plants planted in the grow closet in Autumn! few lettuce leafs from closet as a snack, and Russian kale from grow box in veg patch that No One but me likes (even the chickens complain!).
Moving: all those small clipped twigs stored in a heap from this summer that are semi composted and loaded with worms -- they are now being shoveled into the aviary 1) for chicken’s digging pleasure in hunting worms and crawly bugs (exercise/hunting skills/enrichment); 2) soil is saturated to where straw does nothing but mats down and remains swishable wet to the point the girls can’t/won’t turn it; 3) keeps the girls up off the soaking wet soil and warmer healthier feet.
Miscellaneous notes: Need to get help again to finish fruit trees pruning and get some one lined up to spray the apples. I’m not sure I want to still and looking for alternatives. Got a handy dandy soil test kit but I have little faith in it no matter what the nurseryman said. When you ask where the expiration date or batch number is and are told ‘don’t worry about it’, I worry about it! My basket person is MIA so all those whips and splits I am going to turn into a fence of sorts by pounding holding post and stack the brush as compactly as I can, horizontally but traveling upward in small footprint as not to waste space. As they rot, I will tamp down, and each year add more (?) IDK. Sounds like a plan but will it work, be practical and accomplish my goal. Time will tell. Anxious to get Africa in order to do straw bale planting experiment of mushrooms.
160415 - Wally and me conquering the demonic brush fence made of three dead rustly Christmas trees
