Pea Factory

Another big day in the garden. Got some peas in. This is about 1/3 of the length of the bed. I'll put another 1/3 in in about 2 weeks. You can see the compost mix laid out on the straw in rows for planting. Only time will tell if this no dig garden business works for me.



I also nearly finished mulching the enourmous pile of garden waste that Rae and Ash produced in their backyard blitz effort last weekend. I used the diamond particle 'whetstones' that Dad cleverly gave me to sharpen up the blades on the Mulcher. When I was about to put them back in I manged to knock it over and break several bits of it. This required some ingenuity in repairs. I used some hoop iron to make a sort of reinforcing plate for the plastic plate that broke. This had a sort of pivot in it so needed to be fixed up. I pop riveted the reinforcing plate I made onto the plastic plate and that seemed servicable. The freshly sharpened blades made heaps of difference and for the first hour or so the mulcher was really chewing through the pile. The last three or so hours it slowly started getting harder and harder, so when it finally jammed about 15 mintues shy of having completed all the mulching (and about 30 mins shy of sun down) I decided to call it a day and removed the blades to sharpen up again for next time. You can see that the huge pile is gone and there's just a few bits to go in the foreground.



Here are the blades all sharpened up again for next time. Should make short shift of the last few bits to get through.


I should receive a pacakge of heirloom seed this week ready for planting over the next couple of months. I'm also hoping to hear from a retired colleague who is reknowned for his tomatoes this week.

Came across a cool poem today

Beautiful Woman (A.R.Ammons)

The spring
In

Her step
Has

Turned to
Fall