Memory Squares and a Scarf!

Here are memory squares I decided to create for my nieces and nephew, it was my first sewing project since school and I am very happy with the end result.

...and of course a pouch to store them in.

My Grandma, when she stayed with me, showed me how to knit a lacey scarf, so here is my first knitted scarf, with Zena modelling :)

Small veggie garden update

I haven't had a lot of luck this summer, but here are a couple of things that seem to be doing well.

Lots of lots of chilli's, I have picked these and hung to dry

This tomato plant came up on it's own and it doing so much better then any of the ones I planted.

Chamomile, I haven't worked out how to use it for tea yet.

Mini eggplants are almost ready to be picked

The only flower that grew from many seeds I planted

This lemon tree was losing all it's leaves. It was down to only 3 leaves, when I decided to put an outdoor chair over it to protect it a bit from the sun. You can see how well it is doing now, with even a flower bud appearing.

Lots and lots of strawberry plants

I was kindly given a heap of strawberry plants a few months ago and since planting, I have not had one strawberry off them, as the ants and millipedes keep beating me to it. So I decided to dig them up and plant in foam boxes, pots and hanging baskets.

This was the trial hanging basket and it is doing so well, it already has strawberries growing, so I decided to go ahead and buy another 9 hanging baskets.

Freshly dug up strawberry plants before pruning.

Strawberry plants potted up a couple of weeks ago

Before and after, the strawberry plants on the left having been growing a few more weeks than the plants on the right. They look so healthy now that they are out of the full sun.

Finished hanging baskets and dripper system installed.

Almost 8 weeks old

Weeds, ducks and chickens

I have the caltrop weed growing everywhere, very prickly if you step on the seeds, or put one in your finger. So rather then weeding, I decided to put wet newspaper and cardboard down on my paths to stop it from growing. I am very happy with the result.

Feeding time, Ollie and Cleo coming for food, before I even had the food out.

Waiting...

Mmmm food!

Hiding from the wind

Late Xmas present, one bale of hay

Very happy chickens and hens

Make a free bird feeder and bird waterer

Tonight I have just made a bird feeder and bird waterer (is that a word?) out of two terracotta saucers I am not using for anything.

I drilled 4 holes into each saucer using a masonry bit and keeping the terracotta wet.

Then using old clothes line I simply put it through the holes and hung in the pepper tree. One saucer is being hung on a hanging basket hook I found in the garden and the other is tied into a clothes hanger.

I need to seal the 4 holes on the bird waterer as the water is running through at the moment.


Now I just wait and see if the birds come...

Potato Harvest

Not sure when is the correct month to harvest potatoes, but the tops had died, chooks were enjoying digging them up, so I decided to harvest tonight. I got almost 3 kg's of potatoes, a little smaller harvest then I was hoping, but look good all the same :)