Today we were planning to get a trailerload of mulch for the new flower and vegie beds, but the wind was so strong we would have ended up wearing it, eating it and breathing it, No thanks. So it was a gentle day in the garden for me. I had several cuttings to pot so that was a nice easy half hour. Some of them are from a gorgeous native bush that I discovered at the local tip. It is in the Brachycome family, tiny purple daisy flowers with very short stems that cover the bush so densly that the branches and leaves are smothered. It`s not in our book of natives and I haven`t seen it in nurseries so I`m hoping the cuttings strike. The weather`s turned very cold again which is not good news for the little tomatoes I turfed out of the greenhouse yesterday. There are already some quite advanced tomatoes doing Ok, a couple with flowers on but they`re self-seeded.
I`m putting in a photo of our cherry tree because it`s lovely now.
The potatoes are growing rapidly, I`m having to cover them with straw every other day. Hope they give a good crop !
At the GA expo last year we bought a New Zealand Glory Pea, and they had them there again this year. Ours did quite well apart from the bits that got eaten by something. Thought it was snails but the grower said yesterday that it`s a bug of some sort, and they eat hers too ! Sprayed it with Pyrethrum. I also sprayed the lime tree with Pest Oil, the scale has come back with a vengeance.
The Frangipani seedlings are in the greenhouse now, they seem to be OK so far.
I`ve got to try to make my photo files smaller, they take forever to upload.