Up The Garden Path..............

Hi!!! Been a week or so since last post and muchos has been done!!!   My herbs have a new home....... along with some salad leaves they now live in a cast iron pot that Lee got for me from a farmers auction.........

Growing Lollo Rosso, Yellow leaves and rocket salad with my herbs................

This is living outside at the moment to get the full light on it but will live on my kitchen windowsill eventually

The veggie patch is now ready for planting...... we have sprinkled some bonemeal on it this morning and are letting that rest until the weekend when we'll start planting onions, carrots and spuds........

I now have a path down the middle of the veggie patch (thanks to Lee!!!) this will help to section off the plots and also easy access with less mud when digging them up!!!!

The chooks came out to help but decided it was too warm and this is how they have bath and cool down!!! (In case you didnt know like me and stared at them for a few minutes before Lee told me what was going on!!)

However.... the bath soon turned into some kind of Chook Hot Tub party...... I averted my eyes and left them too it at this point!! (Thank the lord we dont have a cockerl!!)

This is the part of the garden that is known as the dumping ground!!!!! However, my grand (read: unreal!!) plan is for this part to be a bit of a quiet spot!!  I aim to plant fruit trees and have wood chippings on the ground and a wooden bench/swing for chilling out.  Possibly a log Chimnera at some point but at the minute its still the dumping ground!!........... I keep looking at it and imagining me lounging around though!!!

In other news, I was digging merrily away at my spud patch on Monday and trapped a nerve in my back!!!  Currently hobbling around in immense pain, and this is my new best friend.............

So digging has ceased until Lee is off at the weekend!! BUT to cheer me up yesterday he bought me a plastic temporary greenhouse :D  Which ill take pics of later because it takes me 20 mins to hobble up the garden and I need to feed the chooks later anyway!! So more to come later!!

Ta-ta for now :)

xxxx

Who needs the Gym???

Work has commenced!!!  We have now sectioned off an area of where the veggie plot is going to be.... thanks to the sunshine yesterday, Lee and I have started to dig over the plot ready for potatos and onion planting next week......

We decided to have a good sized space where we could fit about 12 full rows in then split down the middle with a small path and have 24 smaller rows.  The front section will stay as one big bit and have potatos and onions in!!!  Very excited......

I like to call this next picture "Genius at Work" (actually Lee informed me that Id not been in any of the pictures yet and it seemed like I was just being lazy and getting him to do all the work whilst i "take pictures for my blog"......... not much gets passed him!!)

Anyway after half an hour of back braking digging id got this far...............

Yeah so not very far but digging is hard!!!! :(
*disclaimer* I had ALOT of layers on as it was freezing........

Eventually, I'd (Lee) had got over half done and after much bending down and picking up bloody roots, stones, glass (?) and other things we mucked out the chooks and piled on the poo...... (leaving a space for potatos at the front with no poo on because you cant grow spuds in poo..... yeah ive been reading !!!!!)

The chooks have multiplied overnight and we now have 12 of them........ this helps with the poo and the worm to soil ratio which is all good, but Lee decided they needed another house.  I compromised (sulked) and got him to build a run to put on it for when I start planting so the chooks dont eat the goods!!! 

The run is a work in progress!!!! But they seem to like their new bachorlette pad!!!

Woke up to some lovely herb news this morning..... ( I feel like there should be some kind of news reader type music inserted here so feel free to bom bom boaaam with me!!!)

My first baby corriander leaf has appeared!!!!  Im very proud of this and am expecting more any time soon :) The parsley is looking good too so pics over the weekend to show this!

Anyway, seeing as Im aching for England today (Ive remebered ive got backs of my legs!!) im off for a cuppa and to watch the chooks dig the garden for me!!!  Updates soon.

Loves xx

Herb garden!!!!

Hellloooo!  Not posted for a few days but still trying to wade through the mud in the garden (can it still be called a garden if its a mud pit??!?) Actually thinking of putting a sign up outside the house to advertise mud face/spa treaments for like, a tenner to make some dosh!!!!

However.... in Herb news..... *shuffles papers on desk newsreader style*

Check. This. Out.

 Also a very "arty" shot!!! ha ha ha

Im really impressed with how quick these are growing!!  Parsley, Corriander and Basil!  Although I had white sticks in them to say which is which, but my lovely Other Half changed them round so they grew together at the same time the other day and now cant remember which one he changed!!! Its a good job I love him!!!

My 2 helpers have escaped for the weekend, so Ive enlisted another 2 -

But by the looks of things it'll just be me!!!  Oh and Lee, but he doesnt get a choice :) Its good job he loves me!!! ha ha.

Hoping to plot out the veggie patch tomorrow and should be able to get the soil turned at least in that part.  Chickens due a clean out too and apparently the best thing for good soil is chicken poo!!! Well we've always got plenty of that!!

So more updates over the weekend!

Loves x