Hello  I haven’t written for a while – just want to spend time out in the garden.  The weather is at its most perfect- just perfect clear skies and warm weather and with the introduction of day light saving it allows for time in the evenings to do things.  I have been buying plants and taking cuttings from neighbours and friends.  I especially like buying the half dead ones from the nursey because I know that they can be rescusitated.

I have also managed to clean up the mess from removing the wall.  I hope that I never go through that again.  The dust is still lingering – I just choose not to see it.

I have been working on how to get my lovely big windows to my house.  If you remember I have bought them secondhand from a shop located 100kms away.  They have  agreed to keep them until I can move them.  Of course this is killing me as I want them here now and installed while I am out shopping!!!  I did have a minor freak out thinking that I may have bought rubbish and that they weren’t good enough, but after a visit they are perfect and I won’t even need to replace any of the glass.  Here’s hoping they are all in one piece when they arrive.

So after much searching I have managed to borrow a car trailer from a friends friend (thank god for friends) and have made sure that the shop will have enough people there to help load.  The windows should be arriving during this week.  yyiippeee! 

I don’t know how we will get them off the trailer but I will worry about that later, meanwhile I am pottering in the garden.  HHmmmm just bliss

I love gardening and love the cottage garden look – I know this is not a practicial garden but really nothing of me is practical.

I also love the no dig garden – so luckily my best mate owns a farm and agreed to bring down a ute load of cow manure in exchange for a meal at the pub.  Easy.
To start this process you need to lay a lot of newspaper over the ground.  I have collected every newspaper for weeks now and with the tap strickling start laying thick wades of newspaper overlapping all over one half of the garden.

I can hear you saying now – WHAT the tap is trickling with water restrictions firmly in place. I can assure you that I am very conscious of water and just had the tap trickling to damp the water as the wind had a firm hold that day.

After the newspaper is completed overlapping and covering every piece of the garden – we shovelled cow manure all over it.  This took quite a while as I was using muscles that I did not know existed and had to have lots of rest stops.  When we had finished and I was wrecked the manure was about 6 inches thick over the newspaper.

The next trick is to cover the manure with pea straw, which makes a huge difference.