Pruning, mulching, weeding

Weeded around the veg garden.

Pruned kawakawa from bed by phoenix palm, thinned out the bushes.

Mulched the remainder of the courgette and squash with the prunings.

Pruning, mulching

Pruned two branches from tree near phoenix palm to let light in on grass next to the pool.

Mulched the courgettes in the veg garden.

Pulled out the last of the silverbeet.

Sowing, tending

Sown two 8cm pots of Basil.
Sown one six-module of cos.

Snow peas are beginning to fruit.

Pruned back the pots of mint, the sage and marjoram.

Put compost around the garlic, which have put on a spurt.

Pruning, potting on and sowing

Gave the remainder of the Carex buchananii ornamental grasses a trim. The clippings have gone on the compost heap.
Weeded out a lot of yellow oxalis from the beds around the middle lawn and vege beds.
Pruned the tree at the front back by taking out crossing branches in the centre, cutting back new growth to about 3 buds and taking out two branches leaning on the fence.
Pruned the banksia behind the fence by about one third, taking heavy growth off the top.
Sowed a seedtray of Californian early red onion seed and 2 six-modules of cos lettuce.
Potted on 12 snowpeas from six-modules into 10 cm square pots. The snowpeas in the garage have grown good roots and are about 30mm above soil level. The seedtray outside has the snowpeas just showing.
The garlic planted at the start of June is showing good shoots. These cloves were taken from last years crop. The garlic planted at the end of June from shop bought garlic has not shown yet.

A very mild day, max temp 17 degrees, but warmer in the sun.

Pruning, mulching, repotting, weeding.

Its been a pleasant day with plenty of sun and a max of 15 degrees, and no wind.

Broke up a pallet board for kindling, but some planks were suitable for a new seed tray 30cm x 40cm, so cut them to size ready to put together.
Repotted the hellebores into 2l pots, and the helleborus foetidis from a 2l pot into a trough by the rumpus room.
Sprinkled some growmore on the garlic, which are beginning to sprout.
Mowed the lower lawn and mulched the salt bush and hydrangea clippings from last week and week before last with the mower. Clippings put on the composting waste by the woodpile at the end of the lower lawn.
The pool pump is still leaking and so switched off to give me time to look at the problem.
Pruned hydrangea by alstroemeria.
Brought up some more branches that fell from the pine last spring ready to cut into logs.
Cut down some tobacco weed and treated the stalks with woody weedkiller.

Pruning by the lower lawn

Cut a large branch away that overhung the lower lawn on the north side, took out a kawakawa that was growing in a flower bed and cut back the saltbush by the lower lawn camelias to about half size. Shredded the branch, kawakawa and some of the saltbush for mulch heap. Left the rest of the saltbush to be shredded by the mower when I mow there again.