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Sunday, September 14, 2008

A most productive weekend

All is right with the world.

I have dirt under my nails, a glass of wine in my hand, a cat at my feet and 5kg of Jerusalem artichokes in a bucket on the deck.

I also have a new paved patio, a bag of barley seed to sow, a michelia hedge at the end of my deck, a couple of hundred dead snails marinating in salt water, gravel under my olive grove, a pruned crabapple, two limbed-up kanukas, half a weeded rose garden and four small almonds, each 5mm long, developing on my dwarf 'Garden Prince' almond tree.

I also have a rotten infestation of grass grubs. I sense my organic ambitions are about to become horribly unstuck.

At least the broad beans are fattening up. They'll be ready to eat next week.

4 Comments: Click here to add your thoughts:

Lauren Edwards said...

Hi Lynda,

Hope you got our sample kit of Nature's Curator - expect it will really help with your experiment of going totally organic.

Let us know how you get on.

Cheers,
Lauren & the Nature's Curator team.

Arfi Binsted said...

Hello!

I'm a kind of home-gardener and home-cook all together at one. I have been wanting to plant my own asparagus and artichoke for quite some time but I haven't really found any stores which sell these plants. I found asparagus roots ready to plant in the garden centre at the Red House, but I thought I did not have a space for them just as yet, but now when it's ready, they're gone. Good luck on your new plants :) It's just the good time of the year and nearly, nearly the time we're all going to have a great feast of all the labour in the garden. Let us know!

Anonymous said...

I've got a rotten infestation of horrible grass grubs too. Any tips for getting rid of them as organically as possible?

Leigh

Anonymous said...

Posted at 12:31am......what where you up to!??!