Magic Beans!

Well what a week. Been flat out with the AICD course, but its been brilliant. It could well be the best course I've ever been on. But its truly terrifying how exposed you are as a director. I'm not talking about the dodgy ones like HIH etc. I mean you can get yourself in trouble by doing nothing when you should have been doing something, even if you didn't realise you should be doing something, because you should have known, and so on.

Had a bit of a play in the garden again. The beans I planted a week or so ago are leaping up! Theres at least 10 of them up now and one is quite large. The $500 cabbage is still the only one from the first tray that has emerged. The second tray had nothing, so i took all the punnets out of the mini greenhouse thingy and replaced them with 4 punnets of peas and 4 punnets of sweet corn. I am hoping that these will come up quickly like the beans did with daily watering as the beans have enjoyed. Today was also 'seasol day'. watering with seaweed water mix rather than just water. I'll try to remember to take a photo of the beans tomorrow. I planted about 70 bean plants i think (5 different varieties-all 'bush' beans -- kidney beans, flageolet beans, cherokee beans, yin & yang beans, basmatti beans. If all of them grow i plan to dry the extra in the trusty dehydrator and have them in winter soups etc.

I unwound all my dripper tube today and lay it in the sun under some pavers to try to get it straightened out a bit. I also constructed a grid of dripper pipes for 'bed number 2' (which is assigned to legumes at this point in the crop rotation). Unfortunately i didn't quite have enough connectors/elbow etc to get it all together. Will have to grab some from bunnings tomorrow.

For those following the EQ2 front, I dinged lvl 49 this morning before it warmed up enough to be wandering around outside. Was a bit chilly overnight in Canberra. As the tomato growers here say, you don't plant your tomoatoes out until you know the winner of the Melbourne Cup. Late frosts don't you know! Have finished the quest line in the Steamfont Mountains and now moved to the Sinking Sands and finished a dozen or so quests there.

Did a heap of laundry, etc, and have been listening to a lecture series on archeology and the discovery of various civilisations.

Also made some little loops of 5mm dripper line to go around the lemon and the walnut in their pots. The walnut is going great guns by the look of things.