bamboo trellis tripods installed around the broad beans, pak choi planted

planted a row of pea seeds that Cam collected yesterday when passing an XR protest

outside it's dull and grey and wet and a pair of Red wattlebirds[1] are feeding in the neighbour's tree

there's a Grey butcherbird[1] sitting on the fence about 3m away outside the window, but the new windows with flyscreens mean no photos

An hour of shovelling and I've covered the citrus garden bed with wooodchip mulch from the neighbour's tree

Is it garden or house? Either way, I suspect we have a possum in the roof space above the kitchen – noisy scratching, and definitely unwanted

wandering around the garden examining the autumn fungi and falling leaves, we found a huge case-moth case hanging in a bush

another row of broadbeans planted, hopefully to stagger the crop production

the broadbean seedlings have started to sprout

The three tiny pumpkins all died, rotted and fell off so we've pulled out the plant – so much for the pumpkin crop

the 2023 eggplant crop consist of one small purple eggplant, ripening nicely, but only a bit bigger than a golf ball

Two rows of broad bean seeds planted in one of the raised garden beds

there are still a few green tomatoes in the garden, I suspect nothing more will ripen now that its getting cooler

looks as though the daphne may have succumbed to mistreatment or neglect during the renovations

A solid two hours of mowing and gardening, destroying the mower in the process – mangled the blade on a concrete cover

I grabbed a double handful of tomatoes while we were visiting the house, they're doing well considering the lack of watering

builders had turned off the watering system tap so the vege. garden is all dried up, but harvested some toms

registered with the Victorian EPA to have garden soil samples analysed… this could be interesting

I have harvested the second tomato! Fingers crossed that the weather stays warm for long enough that the rest ripen up

colour starting to appear in some of the tomatoes and all the plants have collapsed as our stakes are too slender and soil too shallow

planted a punnet of lettuce seedlings and two pots of petunias

garden renovation destruction – all the beds against the house stomped down to ground level during building works

potted up the cactus cuttings from grandad tritsch's garden

so many plums now, I just about have to do the limbo to get to the shed under the branches

a relaxing half hour cutting back the overgrown grass along the front edging, until driven inside by the mosquitoes

there's a scarily large European wasp[1] buzzing around the outside of the house, I'd better check it can't get in and hasn't started a nest

two blissful nights of no feral ginger cat, then it was back at 5am and again just now, prowling around and yowling, trying to get back under the house

Under the house may finally be cat-proof again… or at least cat-resistant

the Just Joey and Charles de Gaulle roses are flowering and look near perfect in the light misty rain

gathered up all the concrete rubble left around the place by the restumpers, now to get rid of it…

the large pile of old red-gum house stumps is now neatly stacked to dry out and become firewood

A very large pile of muddy part-rotten red-gum timber house stumps are lying on the front lawn… must get around to moving them soon

fruit on the plum tree is starting to pull the branches down so we have to duck under them already

the snowball bush is covered in flowers, all still green

the jasmine along the fence to the south is in full flower, smells strongly in the still spring air

snails have eaten most of the basil and lettuce seedlings

woken again by yowling cat outside; either the neighbours still let theirs out or we've another local feral one

the new Freesias are flowering – paid a bit more for red & blue bulbs, seems I got ordinary pink & yellows, oh well

Callistemon out the front has started flowering, so every second woman who walks past snaps off a flower, or a few flowers, or a small branch

old mate has a different iced coffee bottle today, still lobbed over the fence from the park into the back garden

Finally got around to cutting down the trunk of the dead birch tree on the south of the house, two left still growing, until the next heatwave

While having lunch a Grey butcherbird[1] landed on the porch railing and watched us through the window, while singing and shouting at the cat