Sun shining, blue skies, light breeze, what a fabulous day
to be productive in the garden! I spent most of it outside catching up on little
jobs and got a good chunk of my to-do list crossed off. After watching a great tutorial months ago
about having a small compost pile in your vege garden, I decided to put the
stainless washing machine bowl I had been using as a little incinerator into
the middle of the vegetable garden and start my own. The idea is that any
nutrients that are released from the compost don’t get wasted because the
plants in the garden are able to absorb them. Once the pile is full and everything
has broken down you are left with a nice rich compost which can either be used in
the garden or used to plant in.
While exploring the garden wilds at the front of the
property, I found a pile of concrete pieces which I thought could make a nice
crazy paving around the vegetable garden. I lugged a few bits up so I could get
a “feel” for its most valuable purpose but that just created more ideas than I needed.
I also found some fantastic terracotta pipes...old drainage pipes maybe?
Anyway, these types of finds are gold for a rustic garden. Not only are they creatively
useful but they have a certain charm to them and with good placing they can
look rather impressive, especially with a tumbling herb cascading from them. 
The girls spent much of the day wandering in and out of
their run, they are getting more confident of their new surroundings now and it’s
so lovely watching them exploring the yard. I placed four concrete blocks under
the legs of their hut today to raise it off the ground a little more and it gives
them more room to bask under it in the sun which they like to do. They certainly
have different personalities and it’s quite humorous watching them do their
thing. Petunia loves the beach wood perch, Doris likes to dust bathe the most and
Tuk Tuk definitely rules the roost!
Diesel is now snoring on the bed, he is completely worn out.
I think we all are actually, after quite a few days of rain and cold southerly
winds it was nice to get outside and burn off some energy. I got all the
cabbage leaves picked up that were littering the lawn, drainage dug and the
grass and soil from it I used to fill the craters in the lawn. All the kennel
bedding got washed, paths hosed down and weeds pulled, think we will all sleep
well tonight.
