Dear Hubby took me shopping today to Bunnings *swoon*... so I could get two brackets to sure up the new arches and a roll of corrugated drainage pipe to go into my wicking pots for the trees. We also stopped at the bottle shop to get a beautiful bottle of ... Swan Draught *chuckle* fear not! It is not for us but for our slugs and snails that have been extremely busy pruning my plants. It seems we should have got several other bottles as I ran out after filling the first 6 traps!
On our return I walked out the back to set a cup of beer in the worm farm for the slugs that have decided to squat in there I came upon carnage... pipe fittings; hydroton (round expanded clay balls); pipes and mess all up the back corner... and two very, very excited dogs. Well I followed Rex who made it quite plain he had found something... I am actually quite relieved this little bobtail was whole and unharmed but probably had several nose prints on his back as the dogs investigated his obviously interesting odour!
Ice-cream container to the rescue and a quick walk out the front and this lil garden buddy got to go explore under the cape gooseberry bush... so I guess its now the season I better start wearing shoes in the garden as the snakes will start coming out of the conservation land!
Now I know that technically I should not harvest my rhubarb this year however it was so crowded at the top of the fence I decided I better thin it out and taste test... yet to taste but so exciting. So Strawberries from my garden (big ones) and hydroponics (little ones), cape gooseberries, broad beans and snow peas. Not a big harvest but every little bit helps :-D
I enjoyed my afternoon watering with seasol and aquasol... hoping this is the pick me up some of my plants need to survive the onslaught of the never ending caterpillars, slugs and snails. Anyway that's it from me tonight..
Happy Gardening!
*hugs*
Sarah
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