Last week's work
Mar. 24th, 2020 06:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
olorielI have managed to twist the ring finger of my right hand, which is is used in an astounding number of activities, while hauling stones. (A month ago, I smashed the tip of the ring finger of my left hand (also while hauling stones), and it's still tender and painful (and I'm still not entirely certain that the fingernail will stay where it should be), but I'm right-handed, so the new injury is more inconvenient). So I have to take a break from gardening until the joint stops acting up.
Perfect opportunity to treat you to a picspam! (Not of the hurt fingers. Not worth photographing, anyway. I tend not to bruise, so you don't actually see how much it hurts.) Here's the current state of the garden, after (most of) the necessary spring cleaning and before things (hopefully) start to grow.
Nearly everyone who walked past the garden on Sunday (and there was a fair amount of people taking a walk in the sunshine, even under the circumstances) asked what kind of tree that was, and everyone who asked was completely surprised that it's a fruit tree (mirabelle plum), not some kind of purely ornamental shrub. Yes, really. Yes, we have harvested the fruit. Yes, we have eaten it. Yes, it is edible. To be fair, Jörg and I planted it a few weeks after our engagement, so it's been there for nearly twelve years, and it's never flowered like that before. I don't know what's up with that.
This, in contrast, is my highly professional :P apple trellis on the eastern side of the garden, overlooking the lower driveway and the horse paddock. As you can see, the apple trees are still biding their time.
I've been scheming and planning to turn the dark (once the leaves are on the trees) and disorderly corner between our terrace and the mother-in-law's garden into a sort of whimsical fairy/forest garden. But Jörg cut down a lot of the branches that made it so shady, and now it looks almost civilised! It'll grow back, though. New addition: a garden path. The stones used to be part of the old garden wall that we started replacing last year. Yes, these are the stones that I used to hurt my fingers. Worth it.
(I will have to replace the wattle fence this year, though...)
The vegetable garden (as seen from the kids' room). Complete with unfinished new wall. I suspect we'll have to continue working on it once there's no more risk of frost...
Not much growing yet, aside from some field lettuce and turnip tops. And garlic. Garlic doesn't give a damn about the season, the temperature or anything else...
Another question I hear a lot is what the sticks are for. I've heard all sorts of fancy theories. The simple truth is that we have cats, who will gladly use my veggie patches as a litter box if I don't make it uncomfortable for them.
(The weird construction at the back is a very makeshift canopy over the sandbox. I turned one veggie patch into a sandbox because that's the one thing the kids have been missing about our garden.)
Last fall I had the opposite problem of now: Not enough time (paired with wet weather). So I didn't manage to harvest all (in fact, most) of the potatoes. Here's a heart-shaped one. Because gardening is love.
Greenhouse also is love. Not much going on yet. Should maybe tidy it up a bit before I need more space there...
Have a nice evening!
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Date: 2020-03-24 08:42 pm (UTC)I hope your fingers heal well and quickly!
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Date: 2020-03-26 01:36 pm (UTC)I'm not ready to use cat droppings as manure yet. XD
Thank you, so do I!