Mowing

Mowed the top and middle lawn. Clippings used on compost heap and to mulch the grapefruit tree.

Cropping

Cropped 375g courgettes.

Turned the compost heap.

Mowing, pruning and weeding

Mow top and bottom lawns. Composted top lawn in compost bin, but used clipping from lower lawn to mulch the cannas by the lower lawn.
Pruned the thorned bush at the front of the house and mulched clippings with mowings from the top lawn.
Beds by fence weeded further along.

Sowing and planting out

Turned the compost and mulched the bed under the grapefruit and maple.
Four zucchini planted out in the vege bed.
Sown 12 modules of Money Maker tomatoes, 12 of Californian Delight capsicum. Two 8cm pots of rocket.
Built 2 seedtrays.

The waratah is flowering and looking good.
The paths need spraying, and some need strimming to access properly.

Snowpeas are beginning to flower.

Rocket planted a month ago has dried out today and so needed rescuing. Ron's capsicums have not sprouted, so I have disposed of them. The butternut squash in the garage have sprouted and I have moved them to the cold frame.

Marigolds are beginning th flower and need planting out.

Mowing and compost

Mowed the middle and lower lawn, now we have had 24 hours without rain.
Turned the compost and added lawn mowings and part composted chipped garden waste to it to give it a bit of get up and go.
The mowings from the lower lawn have been stacked where I moved stumps away for firewood last winter.

Sowing and planting out

Seived compost to third bin.

Built two deep seed trays.

Sown two trays of red salvia Blade of Fire dwarf.
Sown one 6-module large sweet chilli (seed obtained from Ron).
Sown one 6-module butternut squash.
Sown one 6-module capsicum.
Sown one 6-module tomato "money maker".
Sown two small plastic trays rocket.

Thinned out lobelia. They are still very small, less than 2 cm leaf to root tip.
Planted out 12 snow peas along the back wire fence.
Repotted two butternut squash from a small pot to two 10 cm pots.

Composting, sowing

Shredded the banksia and tree prunings from yesterday. Some of this is mixed with lawn clippings and added to the compost bins, but most has gone into the mulching heap.
Mowed the middle lawn.
Sowed two seedtrays of french marigolds.

Compost, cleaning and cutting back

Turned compost, took some semi-matured out to mulch the easternmost vege patch, which contains two blueberry bushes.
Raked up wisteria leaves.
Cut back two ornamental grasses.
Took old flower stalks off the sedum close to the garage. They are multiplying well after thefirst year.

Took old leaves of the budding hellebores to display the flowers to full effect. They look quite bare now.

Constructed another seed tray.
Sowed 36 sweet pea seeds in modules, placed in cold frame.