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.

Weeding

Pulled out some weeds from below the pool, cut some of the more intrusive bamboo and took down a large tobacco weed.
The hot humid weather has changed today, and we are in a southerly airstream.

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.

Moving plants

Removed agapanthus from old fence.
Weeded bed by middle lawn ready for bedding plants to go in.
Pulled worst of the vinca from the canna bed by lower lawn. Planted out 4 tomatoes in bed below herb bed.

Cleaning the weeds

Cleaned the weeds below the herb bed, sprayed the bed to get rid of any stragglers.
Took an agapanthus from the roadside side of the fence, sprayed the bed again.
Cut back bamboo sprouting out of the roadside bed.

More weeding

Dug out flax by fence.
The marigold sowing has been dug up by cats or possums, but I suspect cats.

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.

Weeding

Weeded along fence and sprayed with glysophate.

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.

Planting

Planted out one zucchini with the others, coriander and oregano in the herb area.

Cleaned the small bed by the blue chairs, removing bulbs to replace in new composted soil. I will move some gazenias from the fence by the road to fill the bed later this week.

Strimmed the path by the bamboo and the grass by the pool.

Weeded the vege patch.

Only one row of onions have survived the winter, so replaced the missing rows with the remainder of the onions in the modules - 12 onions in all.

Planted out the marjoram divisions and two coriander plants from 10 cm pots from earlier this year and weeded the herb bed.

Took some weeds out of the middle lawn.

Wisteria is flowering and looks good along the boundary.

Transplanted tomatoes into 10 cm pots - six from modules.

Mowing, weeding

Mowed middle lawn.
Pulled some of the weeds from the lower beds. All the beds need a good weeding.

The Waratah  is preparing to flower.

More cleaning up

Weeded the bed below the grapefruit tree of vinca nad pulled it back from the boundary.
Bit of weeding by the flax by the lower lawn.
Cut back the cardinal flowers by the alstroemeria bed to let light in and ready to extend the waste bed there, so compost can be laid on it and it can be used for planting.
Cut back hydrangea below the kanuka and stacked waste on the waste heap below the kanuka.

Weather this week has been mild mostly and wet, but the dry spell this afternoon has been welcome.

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.