15th August - dear diary

OBSERVATIONS

Bulbs are blooming - I picked some for the kitchen and now it smells like flowers.

Flower seeds in FRONT PICKET are sprouting, incl some SUNFLOWER and some NASTURTIUMS.

CHOOKS

Goong is still broody broody.
Someone is pooping yellow, which is not a good sign. Infection, maybe?
Otherwise, everyone seems chirpy and in good spirits.

BED PLANNING

PLUM-STONE: go for root crops - onions, beetroots, radishes - add lime under those sections
plus more lettuces, spinaches, Asian greens, etc. Later, perhaps a couple of tomatoes staked up

APPLE-CREPE: Corn (plant seed Oct)/cucumbers(plant seed Sep) up the back, and a melon in the front? Run the risk of overgrowth? (It's a corner; should be okay.) prep with rock dust

CREPE-APRICOT: climbing peas, edible corn, climbing beans prep with chook poop & worm castings

APRICOT-AVO: tomatoes, zucchini, bush beans prep with rock dust and worm castings

AVO-SHED: root crops, plus lettuces, spinaches, Asian greens... What if I just mixed up brassicas and sowed them straight in?

TRIANGLE VEGEBED: Tomatoes, eggplant, various brassicas.

ORCHARD GENERALLY: spring green manures, running beans

PICKET FENCE BED: running beans, flowers, ornamental corn

ASPARAGUS: needs compost & chook poop & worm castings mix

RASPBERRIES: needs compost & chook poop & worm castings mix

HEXABED: mustard is starting to take off, but I'm about to plant shade-loving flowers

PLANTING

NOTES

Am contemplating just mixing up brassica seeds and tossing them into one of the beds and seeing what grows over the season. Do it somewhere that can be easily covered over with netting. (possibly sections of the PICKET FENCE bed?)

Toss down some fenugreek/summer mulches in the ORCHARD, exclude chickens. Grow pumpkins out of the OLLA BED (potato/pumpkin setup), but trim down the green mulches just before the pumpkins go in...