Garden Update and Henry VIII

We only have a week and a half left of our big school holidays.  Then we'll be back to it full time. 

 

Where did the time go? Did I rest enough? Ummmm, no, I quite possibly didn't rest at all. Perhaps I should take a week off? Could I actually do that? Yes, I have permission, but I'm a driven sort of person. Always finding things to put my hands to, so I don't know how to just "rest and relax".   If I lay down you KNOW I'm going to get inspired to jump straight back up and make or do something.

 

This week the family has been under viral attack with some sort of tummy bug.  Well, most of the family, so far I've managed to escape it personally, but I've had to pick up the slack and do the extra work and a HEAP more washing.

 

Anyway, the good news is that Chloe went and made a wolf.  A day late, but she still managed to get one put together.

Oh yes, the garden.   We are a few days late, but better late than not at all this month I guess.

 

Capsicums are growing awesome.  :o)

The tomatoes are growing awesome also.  These are VERY BIG, but they are also under attack.  We have fruit fly in the area, so we're not fareing too well in that department.  Lots of fruit but we're losing them before they make it inside.

I think we might have grown the smallest red capsicum ever.  It just goes to show you the difference between different types of plants.  Some are big, some not so big.   I've kept their tags so I'll know which ones to buy next time.

 

The children have been slightly very TV deprived so when I started allowing them to watch the odd Horrible History clilp I started getting requests for them daily.   They LOVE the little songs even if they don't really fully grasp the history part completely.  A little here, a little there.

 

Today we'll be looking at Henry VIII as part of our Project 365. 













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Garden Update

 

Time for another Garden Update. 

 

We now have 4 rows running. 

We've gotten quite a number of strawberries~!!

 

The silverbeet and zuchini are doing awesome.

 

I've been cutting quite a few leaves from the silverbeet.  The tomatoe plants are almost my height.

 

The beans have started producing beans.  Oh and they are taller than me~!!

 

 

We also have a few little capsicums growing as well.

 

Check out all these little baby zuchinis.

 

 

I even propagated my own potatos too!  Interested in seeing if they will produce, and if yes, how much.



 

 

 

And of course, I don't have to water any of them~!!

 

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Walking in the Garden

 

I was most fortunate the other day to snap up a few photos of the children while the front garden was in full bloom.

 







 





 

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Garden Update

 

Time for another Garden Update~!!

 

A lot has happend in the last 4 weeks.  Our plants have settled in and started growing.

 

We had to move them over a couple of metres so that they could get more sun.

 

 

 

 

Some of the strawberries.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the beans,

 

 

 

 

Which are going to need a frame for them to climb up on very, very soon.

 

 

 

 

Zuchini.

 

 

 

 

Tomatoes.

 

 

 

 

With little flowers.

 

 

 

 

Silverbeet.

 

 

 

 

This stuff grows super quick.  Now that they are well and truly starting to grow we'll be able to start picking at them.

 

 

 

 

Capsicums.

 

 

 

 

How the two rows look from the other angle.

 

 

 

 

And the best part is that we don't have to do anything to them.  Not even water them.

 

So the only thing that I have been doing is occasionally going out to have a LOOK at them.

 

Next month I hope to not only have updated photos on these pots, but also some new added rows as well.  :o)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Weekend Project - Self Watering Garden

 

This post is going to be a little out of the ordinary since it's not technically school related.  It's not even paper related either.  Can you imagine that?  But it still comes under "learning", as in real life learning.

 

This weekend hubby and I - mostly hubby, built a couple of 'rain gutter' gardens.  We didn't end up using rain gutters, but the concept was there.  We ended up with something much better.  Something that will minimise water loss.

 

We made a SELF WATERING garden.

 

Imagine having a garden that rocket grew everything and all you had to do was collect the produce off it?  Well, that's almost what we have.

 

But first - we had to build it.

 

Basically hubby took a poly pipe and two big pieces of wood and a heap of buckets.  We got the buckets for free by visiting shops that didn't need them once they'd used up whatever was in them. 

 

 

 

Hubby drilled a hold in the bottom of all the buckets.

 

 

 

 

Then we stuck little baskets through.  They sit nice and snug in there as the lip of the basket holds on.

 

 

 

 

Then hubby started drilling holes in the poly pipe for the baskets to sit over.

 

 

 

 

This is what the poly pipe and wood looked like once all the holes were drilled in it.

 

 

 

 

A little up closer on those holes.

 

 

 

 

Then hubby attached the water hose,

 

 

 

 

and the float.  This way whenever the water level drops a little the hose will automatically fill it back up.  Cool hay?

 

 

 

 

How all the buckets look once they are put on the poly pipe.  The baskets are partly submerged in the water in the pipe.

 

 

 

Then we mixed a heap of potting mix and peat, and threw in some fertilizer too, and started planting our plants.

 

 

 

So now we sit back and wait for them to grow.  We'll put some liquid fertilizer in the water pipe in a couple of weeks or so.  That should help them along as well.

 

 

 

 

Then hubby went and made another row for me.  So we've got two rows going at the moment.

 

I hope to do more updates on our little garden project as it goes along.  So please check back every now and then under the 'Garden' category.

 

So what do you think?