In the past week my nursery has been quite busy. I've doubled the number of cuttings I've taken, including wysteria, a spiky hakkea, climbing and miniature roses, olives, lavender as well as a couple of creepers. I've uplifted a spearmint and some clover from Tanunda and transplanted them into pots. I uplifted an olive seedling (6") from the backyard and potted it. In the resultant hole I've put a couple native ground creepers from our own local 'Kangaroo Resting Spot' where hopefully they'll be happy amongst other indigenous ground covers I've started off between a sugar gum and a mellealuca. Finally for the nursery, I've tried some intense seeding of chives in a couple pots, one has gone into a cold frame with a bunch of cuttings and the other is with the other seed punnets in the elements (I did this for the chives because my initial seeding has produced almost nothing from over a month ago).
In the garden beds I've recultivated all the new ones and am now waiting to put in my winter crops and other autumn plantings. Today or tomorrow I intend putting out some dill, corriander and silverbeet seedlings and possibly some peas, beans and potatoes also. I put the seedlings I've chosen out in the general garden yesterday on a temporary shelf made up with some old spare planks - the idea is to let them get used to increased direct sun before they have to fend for themselves.
In the herb bed I continue to prune off basil, oregano and marjoram for drying. Made myself a simple drying rack out of some old centimetre gauge mesh to help the process.
For flowers, the second of my late planted sunflowers has blossomed with a beautiful flower. That makes two out of three so far. A small 'rescue' shrub that I transplanted around a rare deciduous tree has also come out with tiny electric blue flowers. The peppertrees are swarming with bees, so I'll wait till they're done before I give these trees a major prune (both to shape them, as well as to allow more light into the garden area through winter as the sun drops towards midwinter).
Had a repeat visit from a trio of fairy wrens, and a couple yellow breasted parrots seem to have made it a regular evening thing to sit on top of the old TV antenna tower (20m high).
There's was no rain during the week. Temperatures generally in mid twenties and blue skies. The exception was Friday, with mid thirties temperature and hot dry winds gusting up to 64km/h, carrying a load of dust with it (they closed nearby highways due road conditions, and turned off power to some regional towns due catastrophic fire risk). The following day was relatively cool and calm and the plants loved it!
Daylight savings ended last night, so I'll have less time this evening in my plot. Will make my mind up then about whether I plant out or not.
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