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So it's been a while. The other half has a new job, and had to travel all of a sudden for his first 3 weeks. So I was left, literally, holding the baby.

And it rained! And rained... and rained... so really not a lot got done.

It rained so much that one of our trees fell over.

But now the lovely weather is back (although it's still a bit cold at night time) and we can get stuck in.

Our task today is to put a herb garden in. We want this near our kitchen so will put in a half wine barrel instead of in the ground. All things going according to plan - I should have picks to put up later.

I also went a bit nuts online ordering gardening supplies the other day (plants, seeds, tools, etc) so I need to get myself organised for when they arrive. Diggers and GardenExpress must love me!


I also mentioned in my first (and one and only) blog entry that I've begun a health kick. Well it's going swimmingly. I exercise 6 times a week (hence no time to blog too!) and eat well. It seems to be working. And mad me, I've now entered a fun run (5km) for next Sunday - eek!

A few other things happening in our garden:
Mark's path. From meager beginnings, it's really starting to take shape. Our plan is to have the path wind around the vegetable garden (the ones near the house) and also to go to the woodshed.

We've also had a few dormant veg patches for the winter. We worked out, the hard way, that we don't get a lot of sun in these patches in the winter. So it was ok for some things, lettuce, silverbeet, onions, but not so good for others. We put in broad beans (aquadulce - heirloom variety) for example and whilst they have grown into quite majestic plants (over 6 foot high now) the beans have only just started to form.

We also worked out that another patch, whilst fine during summer, flooded during the wet winters that we have here. So our garlic was under water for a fair bit of winter.

But then we had some lovely points to the wet weather. Our 'lush area' as we like to call it (the bit that gets hardly any sun and a lot of water throughout winter due to run off) was beautiful.

Right then. Off to do motherly things...