A beautiful day at last!

I've been very busy in the garden since my last blog. The wheat is growing well, the alfalfa path has germinated, I've dug another patch of lawn up and I'm waiting to see if the fennel seed I threw in will germinate.

I've also dug up all the lawn in the retaining wall at the front. Previously I had planted a feijoa, a mandarin and an orange up there, and the rest was grass. No grass now, I've emptied most of my seedlings into the new bed I've created up there - although both cats have had a wee in my cornflowers, so not holding out much hope for those. The dirt that Scott barrowed round to the back and put under the fig tree and the fort is forming a small hillock - it's quite the eyesore I must admit. He has an aura of "I told you so" about him. At least the front will look nice!

Today I planted out my lettuce, rhubarb, and spinach strawberry seedlings into the vege garden and planted surplus seedlings of annise hyssop and yarrow in the dirt mound off to one side - nowhere else to put them and didn't have the heart to let them die. Potted up everything else from the seed trays into pots to go on windowsills - the large seed trays on the kitchen table had got the better of Scott's tolerance.

I'm knackered. I was hoping to do a bit of whittling but can't be bothered now. When I said to Scott that I really need a garden seat to sit in and whittle, he suggested I might need a harmonica and some chewing tobaccy...