I'll be away for about five days on a great kiwi road trip up North...perhaps there will be some gardens along the way? I'm not sure but I've got to trust God will water my garden while I am away, for I doubt Mum will do it.
Here's a list of what's growing at Woodside, so a sneak peak of what we will have to harvest later on -
Courgette
Sweet Corn
Beans
Strawberries
Celery
Kumara
Choko
Asparagus
Tomatoes
Lettuce
Broccoli
Chillies
Capsicum
Silverbeet
Spring Onion
Globe Artichoke
Garlic chives
Goji Berry
Sunflowers
Peas
Rhubarb
Raspberries
Pears
Figs
At home I planted two hippeastrums in pots and some silver dichondra falls in pots. The petunias got eaten by slugs, as did the marigold and the verbena isn't looking that great. Strawflowers I put in spring also mysteriously disappeared, though statice is now showing its face. Otherwise all I need to do is chop and drop for now. Kings have their Boxing Day 30% off all plants sale but that just means they are normal prices because retailers generally mark everything up 50% anyway. And it's the wrong time of year to be establishing anything.
So I haven't spent my $100 Christmas pay packet. Mum took offence that I called her gift 'my Christmas pay packet' as she'd said I'd done nothing to earn it. She told me I had to hide it away and not spend it. I considered buying a lucky bamboo to put in the Yum Cha Book Restaurant but then I remembered - I don't work there anymore.
A librarian without a library is like a gardener without a garden. I am not sure what to do now but I will go away and have a think about it, with my box of summer reading National Library books that nobody borrowed from school.
