HERBS & SAUCE

I managed to kill off my potted herbs a couple of weeks ago and have now found a garden bed just off of the kitchen to start a new herb garden. There were native trees in the bed but I have been watching them die for the last year and thought it was time to pull them out. After building up the soil, my new herbs were ready to be planted. I managed to save some thyme, sage, aloe vera and rosemary from the pots so I now have a lovely selection once again.

Sauce is finished for the year, it's a big job but totally worth the effort.

THANK YOU

Thank you friends for your comments yesterday. Today I took the advise of my lovely online friend Rose and I have pretty much done whatever I've felt like doing. A bit of cooking and a bit of gardening and now I'm going to enjoy doing a tapestry that my mum gave me for my birthday last year.

Impossible Quiche - recipe from Rhonda at Down To Earth.

Bottling the last of the beetroot.

Planting out some new herbs with the more mature ones.

CHOOKS GRRRRRR

This is what's left of my wormwood

Can you see it? It's those couple of sticks in amongst the mulch.
I planted the wormwood in the chookyard with a fence around it in the hope that it would grow big and strong and the chooks could peck at the leaves through the wire as it's supposed to stop mites and worms. Well, they shouldn't have any now, as they somehow got under the fence and totally striped it.

It took me ages to find a wormwood down here and I really thought I wouldn't be able to find another, but guess what I turned up today? Ta Da...

A better fence will be put around this one.

In other chooky news, I also had to put up this fence yesterday.

My poor asparagus, pumpkins and zucchini were getting trashed every time I let the chooks out to roam the garden.

But wait... There's more.

This is the third thyme I have bought in the last few weeks once again thanks to my darling chooky chooks. I'm hoping they can't get to this one.

So as you can see, it's been an interesting week with the little darlings, but they are laying lots of eggs for us, so they get to stay.

In other news, I bought a new bay tree (I managed to kill the last one) a sage for my herb garden and some comfrey plants to border my vege patch to hopefully keep out some of the couch grass.



and... my beetroot and spinach seeds are starting to shoot.

I think that's it, hopefully there will be no more demolishing of the garden this coming week.

edited 1/2 hour later...... Sophie's fairy garden is now minus all the flowers, hmmmm. The chooks have previously ignored the fairy garden, apparently it was just to tempting today.
Blessings, Sue