It has been such a busy week, I feel quite neglectful of the
blog but I have accomplished alot of missions that needed attention. Earlier in
the week I contacted a few places and got a reply from a lady who kindly
offered some coffee sacks for me to play around with. The more I thought, the
more I realised just how versatile these could be and how many things could be
made from recycling them. I chose some with a tighter weave for the catnip toys
but the loose weave sacks could be used for all sorts of projects. Apparently some people use them for making
clothing...the mind boggles!
The next wee job was collecting some bamboo. I had an offer
for some lengths of bamboo of decent size but only on the condition of taking
and disposing of all the waste that came from it. Now while that was fine by
me, I think I underestimated how bulky all the bamboo tops would be. Each
length gave me two very decent sized stakes so with all the waste as well it
shows just how long they were. Once I had carried them up to the road I had to
cut them to fit in the wagon and stuff all the waste on top of the stakes. Then
when I got home it all needed a proper trim up and then the time consuming job
of gathering the waste up and bagging it. At the end of it I looked like I had
been put through a paper shredder a few times but I had fifty something tall, sturdy
stakes to show for it.
Now with all this hot weather the garden has been doing well
but the poor lawn is frazzled to a crisp. The queensland blues have about half
a dozen pumpkins on them all just under a foot in size. The jacks have some
ready to remove and more coming through. Tomatoes are providing at least a
couple daily but usually more, the luffa has climbed right up the bamboo
trellis I made for it and is now forming buds. The zucchini is still a little
slow (thinking it doesn’t like it where it is so I know for next time) but I
have a couple of cucumbers about fifteen centimetres long now so hopefully I
will get something off them before we lose summer! The melons have grown lots,
plenty of flowers and the start of melons but those I fear will run out of summer
to have anything substantial on them. The one I am most proud of though, is my
sunflower that is now nearly twice my height...an absolute beauty and just
starting to show its face to the world. I do hope I can reach all those yummy
seeds, might have to get the ladder out!
