Things to do....

I have to admit to an ever growing pile of "Things to do" particularly in the garden. Ive been a bit crook the last few weeks and it means that i havent gotten a lot of the things that i wanted to do done, so i thought i should enumerate the tasks...if nothing else my laziness might shame me into getting on ;)

Blackberry Nip

1. Dig the extension to the garden bed so i can finally plant out the Blackberry Nip rose, the two Heliotropes, the Alyssum and the two Lavender plants that are frying to a crisp in their little garden centre pots
Now this job is WELL overdue. The problem is Kikuyu. It forms the lawn, and it is SO hard to cut through with a spade. The last bit i dug of the bed saw me standing and jumping on the spade to try to get it through the stuff! Still, weve had some rain so if i was ever going to do it, this is a good time to get into it i suppose, and i know ill be happier when its done.

2. Plant out the little (or not so little now) parsley plants that have been sitting on the deck in the empty pot for the last 3 weeks
No excuse here. Its been pure laziness, and im annoyed with myself because i also managed to let the silverbeet seedlings that i bought with it , die. I just have to decide if i want to plant it in a new container or if i want to pull one of the existing plants which have gone to seed, but whatever i do i kinda need to DO it.

3. Decide which of the roses is going to be potted on into the containers i have on the deck and which will have to wait a little while, and then DO it. 

Pat Austin

The problem here is that i keep changing my mind as to how to do it. I have 4 small roses that arent in dire need of transplanting yet and wont be for a year or so. but i do have three that really should be planted out. One of those is the Blackberry Nip though, and that is going into the garden proper, but the Paul Gauguin needs a bigger container asap, as does Pat Austin. I have 3 containers available, 2x 50lt and one slightly smaller, 30 lt i think. I also have the small Meyer lemon that needs a container too. I guess ill have to put the Paul Gauguin in one of the big containers, Pat Austin in the other, and the lemon in the smaller one....i think

4, Feed all the plants
This isnt really something thats overdue as something that i have to remember to do. For some reason time has flown this season, and the Autumn feed kinda snuck up on me. I have to check to see if i still have any general garden fertiliser left, and if not, get more. Actually, this brings me to point 5 on the list, which is...

5. Get the worm farm up and running
I got a couple of polystyrene boxes to start a worm farm before xmas, aaaaand unfortunately theyre still just standing in the garage. I have to get that up and running as i could really do with the fertiliser, not to mention it would be brilliant for recycling our greenwaste. All i really need to do is to poke some holes in the bottom of the top box of the two. This then gets a layer of compost and some compost worms (red tigers) and is placed on the top of the empty box which will act as a collector for the worm tea.I just have to find a bit of extra cash to buy the worms, but hopefully ill have it up and running soon.

6. Get the winter veg seedlings in or started
This one is again, money. I know what i want to get, i just have to get some money together to get em. Ive decided to get a few different colours of cauli seed, and see how they go. I also want to plant some mini cabbages, though im still dithering as to red or white, and some broccoli, and i might try the white broccoli, Cauli Greens.

Potatoes

7. Plant out the last bag of potatoes
Ive been meaning to do this for a while. I still have a couple of potato planter bags over, and some seed potatoes. Ive no idea what the potatoes are, but might as well use them up, and i suspect that there might be more than one kind. TImes like this, my lassaiz faire attitude to labels sneaks up and bites me on the arse! Still, its always fun seeing what you get ;)