Befores and Afters

weeds to goAh yes, those before and after shots showing how busy you have been. Busy, industrious and very happy.

I wasn’t planning on attacking the strawberry bed weeding project just yet. But I needed a sit down.

Late afternoon (well early evening actually) but the sun still blazed so I tucked in.

The tricky bit is there are verbena bonariensis and strawberry plants in among the weeds.  So I had to be a bit deft with my fork.

There are the four wonderful red pots I am minding for Chris and Daniele Banks and they now live in the strawberry bed.  Spaced equidistant and neatly in among the plants.  Except for now they are just in among the weeds.  And bare earth. weeds gone

I managed to get two pots worth of the huge long strawberry bed weeded and then even had enough mulch to get things really sorted.

Now I can see where the plants are and where the exciting new seedlings are to go.  Once I grow them on.

Over the next two weeks I’ll try to get the rest of the bed weeded and mulched. Along with heaps of other areas that need the same treatment.

I had my little companion nearby of course. He is such a baby – didn’t want to have me out of his sight.

So that meant I had to spend a lot time in the potting shed keeping him out of my work.  He does like to stalk about the tables looking for new and exciting places to snooze.

poised to tread on seedlingsIt was incredibly warm today. Up to 24C I think and inside that perfect propagator that is my potting shed (polycarbonate roof, windows on all sides) Artur was just overheating everywhere he flopped.

At one stage he had that mad look of a cat who is determined to walk all over my newly potted up seedlings in search of fresh breeze.

And I actually shrieked at him as I had the camera to my face: but as he has never heard me castigate him before he had no idea what I was trying to say.  (He never does.)   His left paw is directly poised above a cabbage seedling. seelings

I managed to shepherd him out of the way of all precious obstacles and have even set up a blue tray in among the plants so he can feel like he is in the thick of it, but doesn’t have me glaring at him all day.

Despite the pesky feline keeping me busy I did manage to sow more seeds and prick out seedlings. Hours of fun and games.

And tomorrow Andrew is coming with plants! A double delight.