05 June 2011,Sunday, Sunshine

Lovely day, but didn't seem to find time to get out in the garden much.
Picked two nice little pumpkins.  One butternut and the other I think is a buttternut/Jap cross.
There are a couple that look like they will be perfect to put in the show.  Pity we have no ripe kumquats this year
Saw two of the four adult rainbow fish today.  I put a couple new hides into the tank and disturbed their hibernation.  The goldies really need a new tank.  There are too many, really big fish in the tank now.  Hope to get a tank for the plain goldies and another for the fancy and fantails.  Just use this small one then for the babies.  Keep it free of the natives.
Added iron chelates,  A couple days late this week,  Whoops.  Have to get some more seaweed extract tomorrow from Bunnings.  The butter Beans have started to sprout and enough borlotti beans on for another feed this week.  Plenty of salad leaves coming.
Lots of the cutting have struck.  100% of the spider plants, even tho they looked pretty sick when I found them broken off the plant.

So much for the electrician...  We had just started to think that maybe he was not tarred with the Coastal Patio brush...  Then he didn't turn up today as promised  :(   So damn annoying.  We held off going out in the hope he would show until finally Hugh went into town alone to get my prescription filled and I stayed here just in case.  No phone call,  No show.  Bloody typical Qld attitude it seems.

27 May 2011, Friday, Sunshine

Another day of gloreous sunshine.
General work in garden trying to get ready to lay the turf before it gets to dry.
Bit more on my wall as well, and pruned a few of the little cottage garden plants.
Added weekly iron chelates to the AP bed.
Looks like the salt may have worked as did not see the fish flashing at all.
Email from Peter Arthur about the court case with Coastal Patios about the add-ons.
We need to send him any info from BSA and QCAT as received. 

20 May 2011, Friday, Sunshine

Earthquake in Mooloolaba today, and a water-spout just off the coast.  Weird day....
Hugh and Che both sick. :( 
Plus the dogs off colour after being dosed yesterday.  :(   :(
Nice day and the AP looks great in the sunshine. 
First real leaves coming on the Carrots and Radishes.
Rainbow Chard seedlings coming up and the Peas are climbing the trellis.
Added Iron Chelates
Lots of Rosella Parrots coming in to be fed.  The trees must be flowering less.

13 May 2011, Friday, Sunshine

Mum's birthday..
Did a quick trip to Bunnings to buy a little wood heater we had been checking out.  Combined with the flue kit, just over $1,000. but should warm the whole house.  Can't wait to get it installed and running before winter is over.  :)
Hugh busy again planting more grass.  Looking really nice and neat.

Bought some more seedlings.  Spinach, Chinese Veg Mix, and Mixed lettuce.  All happily planted into the AP Bed and looking good.

Added Iron Chelates to the AP System.

5 May 2011, Thursday, Sunshine

More sunshine,  Great growing weather.
Added 5 drops of Iron Chelates to the AP system.
Put SS Nuts onto the silk flowers and dropped them into the FT's.  Within minutes the fish were busy exploring them.  They seem to enjoy the new hiding spots.
The Coir pots now sitting up on bricks to raise them higher in the grow bed.  Now will rely entirely on capiliary action to get the moisture up into them.

29 April 2011, Friday

Most of the day shopping so not much got done.  Another long weekend coming up.
The radish plants are looking great and now starting to develop leaves.
Added a few drops of iron chelates to the garden to see if it greens up the lettuce plants.
Potted a few baby chilli plants from the dirt garden into coir and into the AP grow bed.