Stocking Up...

I've been doing A LOT of online shopping for my garden...
I have bought -
- Gardening Gloves
- Secateurs (felco 2)
- Sharpening Stone
- Garden Hand Saw
- Watering Can (Haws Proffesional 1 gal/4.5ltr)
- Seeds
- Plants
- Bottle top waterers
- Books
- Kids gardening gloves (for Myella)
& more!

And the most of it has come... still waiting on some plants to arrive & the kids gloves. I have been giving what I do have a great work out, trimming back trees & pruning and weeding and generally getting ready for the new garden.

And the Elm goes soon... Not this weekend, but next weekend! How exciting. I will be able to see without a doubt, where I will be putting the garden beds, but I have a pretty good idea already.

I also attended another gardening class & learned more about what the plants that suit our climate are and can do. Some very easy to grow plants were showcased, and I got to take some pigeon pea seeds home with me, and I was very pleased about that. We were also encouraged to keep plants under control if we had a small premises, like I do. Perhaps the plant does grow to three metres, but there's nothing to say you cant prune it back to one and a half metres instead. That way it will be less likely to block out light from other plants, and you are more likely to be able to fit all of the plants you want into your garden. They dont have to grow wild and busy au naturel.

Ok, so we've bought some strawberry seedlings two weekends ago. I have also bought some hanging pots, and now that the Oleander is cut back, I have plenty of spots to hang some strawberries up. I only bought two hanging pots to start off with, as I want to experiment and see how they grow. I am hanging a small alpine variety, and a medium fruited pink variety, so I will have two hanging, and the other three, one sumo (extra large) and two large varieties, will be potted into some lovely pots instead.

Of course to grow potplants you need potting mix, and in anticipation of seedling growing, I also bought some seedraising mix & some coir, some vermiculite and some strange polystyrene looking stuff (but of course it isnt that!) that I can never remember the name of. :0)

Shopping spree is only halfway done, as I've not purchased anything for the chickens yet, nor have I bought my garden edging or blood and bone. These are large purchases, and I expect it will cost me 12oo all up, but my garden will be larger than the two 2x1 meter (approx 2x1yard) plots that I would have got for the same price. I will also have the pleasure (and torment) of doing it myself!!!

Last major purchase - I've been tossing up whether to get a water tank. The way we go through extended drought periods, it might be prudent to get one. Water restrictions suddenly imposed would really kill a healthy vege patch, and that just wont do!

Happy Gardening!!!