Resting A Little

Well... I'm resting after breaking a toe. Yeah... sounds tiny, but those things on the ends of feets can be the most delicate of things at the best of times.

I'm so glad the lawn has grown through. I got the Green and Feed onto it and trimmed back some of the leaves in the greenhouse so the fruit of the tomatoes could ripen properly before I turned into a complete clutz and hurt myself.

The solar lights are charging up properly and they're looking great at night. I'm so pleased with them - but I'm looking forward to getting more literary-themed items in the garden, which is great! I've also thought of 'Little Red Riding Hood' (wolf) and 'Hansel & Gretel' (the gingerbread house)... I can't wait to get in and find those things around the places I would normally find them over the next year. 

Yeah, I'm giving myself a year or so to find those items and really make my garden into what it's going to turn into. You know, it'll be a really great thing to see its bigger transformation; as we all know that when you really want something to happen, it's when you can wait for it to happen and be patient enough for the right things to show up at the right times that the garden (or whatever you're working towards) will work out well. 

I can't wait for the theme to make the garden into what it's going to become... and yes, it'll take time, but it's going to be a great waiting game for me, something I don't mind waiting for. Until my next post, happy gardening.

A Fantasy Writer's Land

Okay, you'll think I'm in the wrong blog, but I'm not. You see, I love to write books and I love to get into the garden and get my hands dirty too - and thus I thought to combine the two together!

So, while I'm kicking back and waiting out my lawn, my imagination started working overtime with my garden and how the fun part of it should look. 

Seeing it's a small garden, I thought it should be looking like a nice little garden - which looks and feels bigger than it really is. So, I'm hoping to find a wardrobe door to attach to my garden gate (I'll just screw it onto the hinged part and have enough room to lock it up, not a problem) and it'll be tall enough that nobody can see over it. That will be something fun and cool to look for; and I'll see what I can do with the colour of it - see if I can paint it a nice dark stain to make it look interesting.

Now, I've already put a duck in a cage to signify 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings' and after posting the photo of it on Facebook and asking what the book of the photo is on a book site, people jumped in and knew it immediately. Some gardeners weren't too sure - or didn't want to play along. Otherwise, I'm hoping to make my garden a place where there's lovely plants and a place of fun too.
I'm also going to make a tall street signpost with fantasy lands I've read about in books all over it - pointing in the right directions - like the one they had in MASH. It ought to be fun to make that one! 

I've bought a deep white bucket with a lid - one my Dad calls a 'painting bucket' - from Bunnings for $14.00 and have put the kitchen composting scraps into it after the kitchen bin is full and the liquid from that kitchen composting bin is used like Seasol on the lawn (diluted with water in a watering can)... it's all coming together! 

I really can't wait to get in and work out the cool things for my garden. I might even get a few seagulls for 'The Birds'... or even a raven, paint the eyes red and put him somewhere around the garden - he may yet freak out the possums at night. Well, until my next post, happy gardening!

Save A Little Money

Well, it's August, and I'm up to the stage where I can kick back and wait for the grass to grow - on a very literal standpoint. This is the part of the facelift I do enjoy in a garden - and I can't wait to get myself into a bigger garden so I have more to do; honestly, I get a little bored when it's cool enough to do more, and yet I don't have anything to actually do in the garden but wait. 

I have to wait for the lawn to establish itself enough so I can install the large stepping stones. This means I have to look into working on another project while I do. 

I've been planning on constructing a street sign reminiscent of the one from MASH - you know the one which was outside of 'The Swamp' with all the city and country names on the sign post? Well, yeah, that but I want one which will have all the made-up names from the books I've read; pointing in all the right directions (yep, even Neverland will be pointing upwards to the heavens - second star to the left - in the right direction). Seeing I'm a writer, and I do love my garden, it's only right for me to have part of my imagination in this garden. 

I've already put a book-style art piece in it; and it's worked out. I'm hoping to pop in more pieces of book-style art works around the place... now I just have to find a statue of a white rabbit to put next to the sign post and it'll really start to look like something out of a book! Until my next post, happy gardening!

Little Kitchen Composting

Last night, I pulled out a small bucket from my art gear, found a lid to fit it and made started putting my food scraps inside it. On the lid, I wrote: 'Compost' so I remember to put my food scraps and tea leaves inside it... might even get in and put a hole in one side and put it inside another one and make compost juice for the garden.

Sounds like a good idea, doesn't it? 

Well, I thought to post this little idea to see how it goes before I forget it. Until my next post, happy gardening.

Leveling Out

Well, it's the last month of the garden facelift and I'm so happy with what has happened in my back yard so far. 

1. The unwanted plants were pulled out and tossed - after I offered them to family and friends.

2. The shade area was sorted out; and I found plants I thought had died were still hiding out and alive! 

3. I bought a greenhouse from Bunnings and built it and started growing herbs and tomatoes again!

4. When my folks were at my place to help me out with building the greenhouse, I gave them 2 Agapanthus - as promised - and Mum loved them! 

5. I re-organised the garden so it would grow and look better; even put in a pathway to the back fence so I can get to the rain water gauge easily.

6. Bought new plants to replace the old, tossed-out ones to fill in spots which now lay bare.

Yep, I did a lot of work for such a small area; and now, I've just bought some cheap potting mix for $2.95 a bag to throw on the lawn to level out my wonky lawn... how cool is that? I really do think I need another bag though. But, that's okay. I'll get that and work it out as this month progresses. Once I get the lawn growing again, the garden will look lovely, lush and green again just in time for Spring and Summer. 

I still want to put in large stepping stones in it, but that may have to wait until next year... I'm not sure yet. Until my next post, happy gardening!