Big day's work

For the second weekend in a row I have my brother in law and a friend to help me sort out my backyard. There's been so much to do and it gets depressing sometimes doing it all on your own, especially when there's a lot of heavy work to do. It takes ages when you have to do it alone.

Here's Markus shifting the enormous pile of dirt that I had banked up along the fence. Jani & I moved a couple of tons of earth and weeds when we prepared the first part of the backyard for turf laying and it had to go somewhere.

And the dirt is gone! Yays!!!! Finally I get my driveway back!

Another view of my now clean driveway. The dirt pile stretched from the fence in the foreground to the garage believe it or not.

We just finished the earth moving and it started to rain so we went inside the garage & fooled about building shelves and putting in tool hooks. When it stopped we started outside again. I mowed the lawn finally! Doesn't it look good? Not long ago that was bare earth:)

Markus kept weeding all the way along the neighbours fenceline. You can see his work behind the table there.

More weeding work! I know it doesn't really look like much but it has been bugging me for weeks, so to finally see it cleared out gives me a huge buzz:)

Markus finishing off down the side of the house.

The skip bin on the road - absolutely packed!

That's 5 cubic metres of soil, weeds, tree branches, builders rubble and old pallets loaded. A big day and a good one:)

It's been a while

Well it's been a while since I put anything up. Work has been manic with endless trips and meetings and long hours. My garden has suffered and so has my gym work! But happy to say that it's still mostly ok:) Here's a few pics:)

Not technically in the garden but still a healthy plant. This chilli sits on Jani's desk near the kitchen:)

These chilli's however are in the planter box outside and doing well. Still no idea what kind they are but obviously both different.

We moved the chamomile to give the herb snail a bit more space since it's such a grower. It went all brown and we thought it might die, but some water and a bit of pruning and it has come back gangbusters:)

Our chard is coming along nicely.

Pretty soon these sunflowers will be brilliant!

For a long time I didn't think these lettuce would grow at all but how again I had it all wrong :D

Without a doubt the star of the herb garden. The basil rules the roost.

Carrots! Can't wait to pull these beauties up.

Just look at that green grass. I'll mow it this weekend. All the brown patches have gone and it's luch and thick and green. A far cry from the mess of bindi's and dandelions we had when we started.

A big storm came through a couple of weeks ago and completely stripped my fig tree of leaves and most of it's figs. You can see a few hardy survivors clinging there still but the poor thing looks rather decrepit.

That's it for now. The garden is doing ok - although it misses Jani's touch. I am a good builder and improver - but she has the attention to detail to really look after the plants. The garden and I both can't wait to have her back:)