The Garden

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We have been growing and trying to grow various green things in our garden. Some things work (like eggplant and pumpkin) and other things have not done so well with our sometimes negligent care (like the cucumbers). I brought back from Australia a bunch of seeds – lots of herbs that I want to use in my food and other miscellaneous stuff that my avid gardener mother gave me. So today before it got too hot, the family all trooped out to the garden and started working. The kids planted trakuen (or gas-zoon-u-et in Burmese or morning glory in English) and I planted cabbage, rocket, spinach and parsley. I was complaining to Ben that these seeds seem so small and my gardening efforts always seem to be for nought as nothing comes up, or little spindly things come up or bugs eat it or something happens. I am a pessimistic gardener. Well the first sign that my day was not going right was when halfway down the spinach row I realised I was planting on top of the rocket. It was only about 2 or 3 metres worth so I quickly corrected myself. Then I moved onto the parsley. I did a whole row of italian parsely imagining lovely tabouli salads in the future. At the end of that row I realised I had planted the whole row on top of my spinach. Ben made some smart comment about why my gardening efforts never work. Anyway, lets see what happens. We watered the rows and in 2 or 3 weeks we shall see what comes up. Fingers crossed. I better go out and water them every day too. What a lot of work!

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  • stuart & diane Post author

    Hello the Davis clan
    We have been struggling to grow much due to it being so dry in oz. In the 50 years i have been associated with the north coast i can’t remember it this dry. Even though we had a full dam at the start it didn’t seem to help the plants much. There is no sub soil moisture at all. It is the first time i have watered water melons every day for weeks and they still looked miserable. I told them last week they are on their own.
    We harvested our garlic crop last week and have it hanging to dry. Not as good as last year but better than i expected.
    We have moved into our new house after nearly 3 years of building. It still looks like a construction site but is close to finished.
    We are hoping to go to Canada in january so looking forward to that.
    Someone at the door.
    God bless you all
    Stuart & Diane

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