Category: gardening

the farmer and the musician

I wasn’t going to write a post today. The 365 Project is over and I can relax and skip a few days, posting only when something that interests me happens, or when I want to talk about something. But today had its moments so I wanted to share them....

P365 – Day 338 – trellis

This is part of Slabs’ masterplan for his shed, aka The Beer Barn. Previously there was an old, low, very dodgy trellis held up pretty much only by the plants climbing over it. This weekend he put a flash new big trellis in place.  I like it because it...

P365 – Day 332 – beans!

When I got home from work this afternoon, the first thing Juniordwarf wanted to show me was some beans that he and his friends had grown at their daycare centre. He was so excited about it, I just had to smile. Slabs said that they were the first thing...

P365 – Day 322 – here be dragons (eggs)

A while very long time ago, Juniordwarf and I met up with the fabulous Kim from frogpondsrock to create some dragons eggs.  One of the highlights of that day was walking through the bush and finding the huge eggs that Kim had made for the event and hidden in...

P365 – Day 296 – find your passion

Go directly to the garden. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. I’m one of those people who never knew what they wanted to do after they finished school. I was the career guidance teacher’s number one nightmare, and my parents despaired that I was never going make...

P365 – Day 295 – stickyweed hell

Back in March, I wrote about my battle with the dead stickyweed in what is supposed to be my little piece of paradise. Well I haven’t learned my lesson, and seven months on, the stickyweed is back in full force. I spent a lot of today paying for this...