Autumn Planting: flowers and roots

Update: I started this log back in at least April, if not March. It's now May, and while some of these have been planted out (the root vegies), a lot of them didn't make it.

also planted: garlic

planning for: potatoes

FLOWERS

POPPIES: tossed in under frangipani
MARIGOLDS: planted along driveway
MEADOW DAISY: planted under cover in seed bed
NASTURTIUMS: lost the really nice red one (dried out)
SUNFLOWERS: not until summer
SWEET PEAS: not planted yet
CLOVER: white clover – sown all along the frangipani space. Red clover: not yet used, contemplating filling in the south side of the yard with it
CHOOKFEED: went in along the inner court of the chook pen, covered by upturned baskets, but the light is being blocked by corrugated iron, so need to move this.

A meadow garden along the driveway: marigolds along the border.
1. rake space around, dig up DANDELIONS
2. spray under the frangipani with SLASHER weedkiller - everything that got sprayed died
3. lay down some compost (finely sieved)
4. plant seeds: POPPIES in the middle, MARIGOLDS along the edges, NASTURTIUMS around the base of vegepod and under the frangipani, SWEET PEA under the apples, CLOVER in the grass around vegepod
5. cover with pea straw

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Along picket fence and on front verge (under the Illwarra flame)

1. water?
2. lay down some compost, finely sieved
3. seed CLOVER 
4. cover with pea straw

In the bee garden

1. Pull out the big sugarcane (wait for Huntley's help)
2. trim down the bushes severely
3. dig up the DAHLIA bulbs 

planting winterveg

note: most of this was planted out, Unfortunately, the chooks dug it all up! So only some of the radishes have survived. I've since planted out a lot more of the winterveg, but it's all over the place and I didn't make notes.

BEETROOT: golden detroit, red detroit, early wonder
RADISH: daikon white, black spanish, china rose

backyard Bathtub: daikon white 
front vegepod: black spanish, china rose
ONION: red burgundy, white spanish, early creamgold , gladalan brown, barletta, unknown 
backyard Bathtub: red burgundy, early creamgold
front vegepod: white spanish, gladalan brown
LEEK: mix - backyard bathtub?
TURNIP: mix - front vegepod:
ROCKET
SPINACH: bloomsdale, english
KALE
SILVERBEET
LETTUCE
WATER SPINACH: bamboo leaf
PEAS: shelling, massey gem, purple podded, golden podded, yakuma, sugarsnap, snow pea, telephone(?)

1. Where am I going to plant the peas? (under the apples in the front yard? Around the new lychee in the back? Do I plant them in different spaces and places? The sooner I get it in, the better it's likely  to be growing.