July gardens

 So, who is doing what in their gardens?

I'm puddling around when I should be working on my fruit cage.

I've tidied up one border and pruned the roses in it which is a bit too
early for my area, but I couldn't stand the look of it any longer.

I've started weeding the huge rose bed as it'd disappeared under weeds and a
groundcover and the roses were in danger of disappearing too.

I've bought some onion seeds as I havent' been able to buy the onion sets
that I used to be able to get after a very long trip to one nursery that
actually bothered to get sets and I've bought a dozen raspbery plants of 3
different varieties - have bunged them into polystyrene boxes till the fruit
cage is ready - prolly still be there come mid summer at the current rate of
progress on that - too bloody cold to do anything much except for a few
hours around midday.

So, who's hibernating and who's active?

 

Managed to put some nice red silverbeet in the front flower beds, they have
replaced the chillies & jalapenos. 1/2 dozen caulies in where the toms &
capsicums summered. Other than that not much. Lunch time so I will give them
a dose of tank water.

 

Seems like we are all not doing a great deal.  About now I start to long for
increasing day length and read more seed catalogues and garden books as I
wait.......

I have my Green Harvest cattle dog on the table waiting for me to finish
here so I'll read that when I drink my coffee.

 

I have the Grey cattle dog & her mate waiting at the back dood.

 FarmI wrote:

I haven't been doing much.  Her Indoors has been ill and between looking
after her and the boggy conditions over the last few months it has been very
hard.  But both are now on the mend so I have been getting the weeds off the
brassicas etc. slowly.

We have joined WWOOF and had a young Swedish couple to stay in April who
were very pleasant and hard working, I will now try to get some more
WWOOFers to help with the stoop work.  The pasture looks great for July and
the horses are all fat and sassy.  The chestnut arab pulled the hook out of
the gate of the electric fence the other day and let them all into the
orchard.  Serves me right I should turn it on more often.  This is better
than two years ago when on the frostiest morning of the winter I got a phone
call from a neighbour at about 6AM which began "did you know all your horses
are running up and down the road ...."

I haven't touched our roses yet, I usually leave it until August.

David