Weeks of heavy rain and the garden is happy. In my garden, there is a thin layer of top soil covering red clay, so when gardening yesterday my Sloggers were big globs of clay within minutes. Sunny yesterday and today, so I did some weeding, pulling out winter grass and oxalis and bastard grass out of the front garden beds. My strawberries arrived and I planted all ten of them. They have already started getting leaves.
The broccoli is still being eaten by bright green, very pretty caterpillars, but I am reluctant to spray more Confidor, so I am inspecting periodically and squashing them by hand. The frangipani has shed almost all its leaves, as have the maples.
I had placed pots of pineapple salvia, hydrangeas and mint beside the front steps of the verandah, but the salvia was becoming very leggy and the hydrangea leaves yellow, so I removed and pruned them back.
