Brian-next-door

tells me that this is the week to put my potatoes in. But he cautions against doing it today because "the moon isn't right". I have a lot to learn, don't I?

I did sow some tomatoes though - amish paste, black krim, purple russian, giant rainbow and hungarian heart.

I smell rain in the air. Which will disappoint Paul who has just re-done the re-seeding.

First bread!

Paul  has been making bread for the last couple of weeks and I'm making my first loaf today. Also doing the second batch of marmalade from this recipe. The first one was wonderful!

Rocket laid again. She's very delicate about it  :) Eggs are impeccably clean. What a chicken!

We're back -

We had to go away for a few days while the floors were sanded.

The weather this week has been most odd. Very cold, and three days of rain, then very high winds and rather hot (25+ degrees). The garden seems to cope better than I do. One of the Rockets has started to lay  :)

The apple trees are flowering, the plum is beginning to plum and the michaelis hedge is one of the prettiest things I've ever seen. I adore this place!

Today I put in another row of spinach, two rows of fennel, a row of carrots and radish (we're eating those other radishes now) and a few more beans. But I was watering most of the day because oh! those winds!

My regime at the moment in the vegie garden is weed one and feed two beds each day. Full watering happens every second day for ten minutes.

In seed news, the brandywine and jaune flamme tomatoes are up, but still a long way from transplant sized. The yellow and red grapes are flowering.

So - 14th - 17th

was cold with buckets of rain. Then gorgeous weather, warming, but very high winds. And today it's raining again.

We may have lost all the lawn seeds in the deluge - we'll wait and see.

During the gorgeous patch, I stuck in a couple of oxheart tomato seedlings from the local centre along wiht the eggplants and some zucchini seeds

Bowral Weather

CURRENT CONDITIONS IN BOWRAL, NSW
Current Temp:10.1°C	Humidity: 59%	Pressure:1007.8hPa
Feels like: 7.5°C	Wind Speed: 20kp/h (Gusts: 28kp/h)
Dew Point: 2.5°C	Wind Direction: N/A

Current Observations @ 20/09/2013 8:00:00 AM

FORECASTS
Friday, September 20	6°C - 15°C		Possible shower
Saturday, September 21	5°C - 18°C		Mostly sunny
Sunday, September 22	4°C - 16°C		Possible shower
Monday, September 23	7°C - 20°C		Sunny

Ah - this is the cold snap they said would be coming...

Cooler, again...

CURRENT CONDITIONS IN BOWRAL, NSW
Current Temp:8.4°C	Humidity: 80%	Pressure: 1015.2hPa
Feels like: 6.2°C	Wind Speed: 13kp/h (Gusts: 18kp/h)
Dew Point: 5.2°C	Wind Direction: N/A

and the house and garden are simply awash with tradies. We do love our tradies  :)

We topsoiled the lawns today, which took 8 tons all up) and then seeded. Now we just have to keep the water up to it.

It should be a couple of years before we need to repeat this. (We cored at the same time we did the grub treatment) 

Cooler night, cooler morning

It was a much cooler night last night, and a cooler morning.

I'm going to cheat today, and buy some flowers as seedlings from the local place. I want to get the area around the vegies looking as pretty as Mark's place. I already have (thank you Jonathon) daffodils, jonquils, white violets and blue forget-me-nots. And bluebells (thank you, David Prior) . I put in some white cosmos, and the hollyhocks, and I want some nemesia and linaria.

I want it to look quite wild and beautiful and vaguely Italian.