A distant view of paradise

If you squint you can see the new potting shed on the far left of the farm. Right now it’s still a sickly yellow, but now that I have put the plants into the ground rather than just rearranging them on the potting shed benches, I can turn to the paint pot for a bit.

But first I must mulch and manure.   The weather is threatening to turn colder, so I decided to brace myself and spread the manure over the three quadrants of the veggie bed.   It didn’t take that much time, but wasn’t a lot of fun.   I

Annoyingly the one bed that needs the least manure is where the huge pile sat.   The hungriest ones will be the beans and pea beds up the top.   Never mind, it’s on now and will do lots of good to the soil below.

I have added a few bags of mulch to the shade garden plants as well.   It’s the green mulch resulting from a massive chipping session this afternoon. A mixture of fresh green chestnut saplings, and few old sticks from the last year’s forest work.

Should do the trick. It looks very odd right now.   But it might keep down the weeds.   I have also planted some of the playful dicleptera suberecta plants that I found during the potting shed tidy up.   They are not really the most frost tolerant of the huge shipment of plants from Filippi Nursery. Only good to minus 12C but I couldn’t resist them.   When in flower they almost resemble kangaroo paws.   And it will be the closest thing to my favourite plants from an Australian garden scheme I once dreamed of planting here.   Too cold for that.   But these could substitute.

No more mulch left, I ran out of energy hauling the tarp of sticks down from the top of the forest.   But I will make more in the new year.