Just a couple of days until the end of January and it’s been quite a year already! 😂 I managed to take a week or so off at the beginning of the month which was good but of course didn’t seem long enough.
It’s been way too hot for me in the garden so I’ve done very little out there but this week I have been getting into my shade houses and tidying those up. Mr T has been looking after the gardens though so they are all doing pretty well. Apart from the asparagus bed which I managed to kill off by mulching it with sugar cane. Sugar cane is pretty good at stopping water evaporating from the soil, but it’s also good at stopping the rain from getting into the soil, so my asparagus basically didn’t have any water for a good few months. Ah well, I think one or two crowns survived and I’ll get some more when I can.
With the help of Mr T I rejigged my stall. It’s got a lovely nice long shelf that sits on the fence and means I can have some work space while I’m tending to the plants. The next thing I want to do is get another sign and put some shade cloth over at least some of it. I also attached some trays to the table which means that the plant pots have a more even surface and aren’t constantly falling over.
Other than that we painted our lounge room and I’ve been getting everything ready for back to school for the kids. Oh and we are all now vaccinated with at least the first dose, the teens have had two doses and Mr T and I are fully vaxxed and boosted.
Ooops 4th Feb and still haven’t posted this. Better do that now. A couple of nice things that finished off the month were being interviewed by someone from The Guardian about the rise of urban honesty stalls; and one of my fellow Green Bums (friends that collaborate on the Green Bums FB page) has also started a plant stall over in Stafford! 😁 Ok better get this posted….
Bayside Homestead 