Hawkesbury Wonder

Amazing. After giving up on the veggie garden about four weeks ago due to the oppressive heat and then a few rainy days when I had spare time and couldn't get there I still had some lettuce to tend to after making it down to the community gardens this morning (the third lettuce down on the right will be dinner tonight).

I have lost my radish and beetroot I'd previously planted, but managed to replant these again this morning. Along with two rows of Hawkesbury Wonder Dwarf Bean from D.T. Brown seeds.

Where I am currently working is in a raised bed within a secure, fenced area that costs 24 dollars a year (50 cents a week) to rent.

Now that we have received some rain (though not as much as some of our neighbors, though better than none) and the excessive heat seems to have abated for the time being, I hope to get into full veggie production again.

Well that's it for now. Cheers and happy veggie gardening

Stewart

Predicted showers

I shoulda' know better, yesterday the Bureau of Meteorology predicted showers tending to rain and it was fine. Today they predicted fine weather and it is showery tending to rain at times.

How much are we paying these wallies and how much money do we spend on resources for them? I think they could save you/me/us a whole lot of money if they just stuck their head out the window and had a good look around every once and a while.

It is my only day off today, so to speak, and I had planed a fair bit of veggie gardening for today, but all I can do now is enjoy the rain, watch the weeds grow and start knitting the beanie I promised myself.

Cheers for now

Stewart.

I made it.

Remember my post back on the 11 of January (Knit one save one) where I wrote about an ad in a newspaper that was finally worth printing. Where I was reading the Queensland Courier Mail and I saw an ad with the heading 'knit one save one' to help save children in need around the world?

Well here is my progress. It has taken me ten squares to knit one without any mistakes but I'm getting through them pretty quickly now.





This lot here will be sent off tomorrow and in the meantime I'll be starting on my next batch.













And just for a giggle I thought I'd kit myself a hat and here is the result. Again full of mistakes but I'm learning a lot along the way.

When I started I thought all I'd need would be a couple of needles and some wool. Well that has grown to five sets of needles, one set of 40cm circular needles, a craft needle and a tape measure. Oh and some of those double pointed needles most of which I didn't even know existed until now.

Anyone else taken up the challenge yet? I'd love to post about your progress.

Cheers and happy knitting

Stewart.

Just add water.

Just add water and look what you get.

After a initial fall of 51 mls of rain (there was also a storm in there somewhere prior to the 51ml which dropped 20mls) we received a further 18mls over the next two nights. A fair bit of happy dancing around here atm.

After weeks of waking up in the middle of the day to face 30+ temp after working all night the last thing I wanted to do was was go out and spend two hours watering just to have it all dry up in the next two hours, so consequently the whole of the veggie garden has fallen into a state of neglected abandonment.

But since the rain and with some kinder days ahead I'll be getting back into it and start planning some Autumn/Winter veggie gardening (even been thinking about potatoes already).

Cheers and happy gardening,

Stewart

Sniff, sniff.

Oh, I've just gone all teary eyed. Who remembers Kimba.

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Sigh, if only I had the money.

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