Day 17 20/10/14: Planting flowers, herbs and vegetables

Another great day in NZ :D  Spent the weekend with Arj and Karen, so a few days backlog for the update...got some help today from Squidgy and her little helper :)

Went to Bunnings and the Warehouse Sunday with Louise...we got loads of plants:

Planted the herbs, from left to right: Radish (already planted), parsley x2, Mint, rosemary, coriander..might need to change the pots around a little in the future to suit their growth.

This is the new patch that I mentioned in the last post...it's now got sweetcorn and lettuce planted in it - I'll need to get some string and place a piece of wood on the closest side for the corn to stand up against..it will be attached to the wood shed also

There are also some sweet peas next to the woodshed in the same patch

And where the tulips where (they are now past their peak, have been taken out and left out to dry...we can use them again next year), there is now a bunch of flowers...will see how they come out in the future

Then a bunch more flowers down the side...we had an idea to make a NZ flag! that would be cool but I don't think it is very feasible, we would need a lot more space and flowers, so instead it is a pattern of red, blue and white flowers that will hopefully be apparent as they grow.

Had one of each left so planted them in this little wood pot that I found in the garage (hand made by Louise). Bit crowded but will see what happens

Planted some Apple Cucumber at the bottom of the steps, the plan is for it to grow down towards the lower part of the garden

Also planted a bunch of peas in the small patch in front of the Manderin tree

The potatoes are all shooting through the soil so I covered them up, and all the plans looks bigger / stronger which is good!  I'll need to give them some more plant food soon and top up the slug/snail pellits as there is a lot of them around pecking at the harvest

There is still a patch in the lower part that is ready to be used...not sure what to put there yet - also there are some flowers I have not yet planted from the Bunnings trip and we haven't decided yet on a tree.

Lots to do, need to saw of some wood to square of the new patch, clean up where the tree was cut back, prune the manderin tree and plant the rest of the flowers...that is the plan over the next few days and then will look into developing the first part of the garden more (steps and security light)


Ideas to Pursue:
Security light outside wood shed
Stars to bottom level of garden (currently only middle level)
Repair fences / gates
Organize inside of garage
Shed or Tree next to PAB?
Build maze? (lol!)

Short term plans:
Path to wood shed / end of garden

Clean back choppings from giant plant & find new tree
Square of new patch
Prune Manderin tree

Plant remaining flowers