Planting out, cleaning up

Pruned lower branches from Camellia and one lower branch from fig where we walk to the lower lawn.
Planted out salvia and marigolds in the bed by the middle lawn.
Weeded the vege bed, herb bed.
Pulled Tradescantia fluminensis from bed by woodpile. There is a lot in the bed below the pool, but there are nesting blackbirds there so I am reluctant to pull it yet.

Pruning, transplanting, sowing and layering

Pruned the hibiscus by the garage.
Transplanted 4 butternut squash from modules to 10 cm pots.
Sown one seedtray marigolds.
Layered the winter mint.

Planting out

Cleaned bed by middle lawn and planted out 6 perlagonium, 1 seedtray cosmos, 1/2 seedtray red salvia, 1/2 seedtray lobelia.
Planted out 1 tray marigolds around the vege patch.
Moved some gazenia from in front of the fence to the prepared bed by the blue furniture.
Cut down some of the kawakawa and larger weeds near the pool.
Thinned out weeds in lower canna bed, but it will need spraying. I will need to mulch it to keep the weeds down.
Potted on 6 tomato plants.
Sown two 8cm pots coriander.

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.

Sowing coriander

Planted one six-module of coriander - 14 seeds in all.

Its been two days of heavy rain, but warm, about 16 degrees. The marigolds sown last weekend are already germinating in the garage.

Mostly sowing

Showery but mild day today.

Planted another seed tray of marigolds.
Planted two 8 cm pots of butternut squash, two seeds in each.
Planted two 8 cm pots of canteloup melon, two seeds in each.
Planted out 10 snow pea seedlings, now about 10cm to 15 cm tall at the end of the middle veg bed.

The two trays of marigolds sown last weekend are showing. The onions are not.

Built two new seed trays.

Planting Marigolds

Planted another seed tray of marigolds.

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.

August planting

Plant broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, spinach, silverbeet seedlings, french marigold, sage as companion plants. French marigolds repel nematodes, whitefly, cabbage whites and can be dug in when dead. Sage encourages bees and repels carrot fly and cabbage moth.
Sow tomatoes, capsicum, melon and cucumber mid-month.

Sowing Marigolds

The Marigolds sown last week are beginning to show, so I sowed another seed box of marigolds today.
The onions are not showing any signs of germination yet.