My Garden Survived

April 5, 2009 Ben General

After three weeks away getting married and on our honeymoon, my garden has survived an average top temperature of 35 degrees C.

There have been a couple of casualties, but nothing that was not expected, and a couple of nice surprises.

My Arrowroot plants have been belted around by the wind a fair bit and coupled with a reduction in water, they have now had a big prune and a large drink to reinvigorate them. The leaves and stems which are high in nutrients, with the leaves and shoots containing 10% protein, have been used to mulch my other garden beds.

My tomato plants which were fruiting well when I left are now fruiting even better! I think that is due to my neighbor keeping a special eye on them and watering them regularly so she could get a supply of fresh tomatoes for her kitchen!

My passionfruit vine is looking very sick and sun burnt. I think a couple of shoots from below the graft have gotten away from me and are not producing fruit. A job for this week is to prune hard, feed lots and water well.

I have discovered an outbreak of a sticky seeded weed ground cover in my lawn. Each plant has spread to be around 1m round, and the seeds are sticking to the dog’s fur which will spread them nicely! A huge campaign of removal was done yesterday afternoon, but there is still a large amount of seed left on the ground which will require management when they germinate.

Overall I am very happy with the state of the yard, there is plenty of work to do but I have a 4 day long weekend comming up!