It's DEMO DAY!

On Sunday last weekend we went to OH's Mums and started their reno of their vet clinic. It was done by a dodgy builder 10 years ago and now it's really showing its age. The whole concrete floor needs to get ripped up and replaced, and then the walls reinstated. As it is attached to their small house they are going to take the opportunity to put in some extra bedrooms. So we had to knock down a couple walls and destroy a previously external wall. It had a small rock wall, then a window on it, then on top of the window was bricks! It was very poorly built. So we got to smash the window and know down heaps of bricks, which was a nice change to office work.

While we were away, it absolutely bucketed down all over SE QLD and our garden got a good old drenching. It is going great! We planted some seedlings in the middle of last week and it was a good choice. Only a couple of them are struggling. Our cauliflowers are going especially great and we should be starting to harvest them this week.

Here are some of the seedlings we planted. We are trying a a bit of mixed planting and putting smaller plants in between bigger ones etc to try and cram more in. We'll see how it goes. There are small silver beet and coriander in there too.

Our cumqaut is groaning under the weight of the fruit, and is still producing! Here is a photo of it with fruit almost ripe, some smaller fruit and a flower.

This is our radish experiment. We left one out to see if it would grow seeds. I read today that carrots take 2 years to grow, so I have a feeling radish might be like that too. Oh well, we got an interesting root out of it though!

OHs seedlings are going fabulously, he seems to really have nailed it now after previous failures. The ones we are selling out the front haven't been flying off the table like we hoped so we might have to plant them out. Some of our own seedlings are already getting root bound so its about that time.

Our rio experiment with climbing peas hasn't been going so well. They seem to get knocked off a lot and two of the plants have died. I think I might plant some at the base of the fence and climb up there and see how that goes. It's basically like chicken wire which can be seen in the photo so might work a bit better.

Have a nice week!