It's sunny out there but not hot at all.
A little tired after trimming some overgrown shrubs.
Rosemary and Lavender are seen everywhere in the neighbourhood that nobody would want the "herbs up for grabs". There was no other option but to save only a handful of each and chucked the rest in the bin.
今日は晴れ。でも暑くはない。
伸び放題だった植え込みを選定した後、やや疲れ気味。
ローズマリーとラベンダーは近所のどこでも見当たるから、”ハーブタダで差し上げます”なんて言っても欲しい人はいないだろうから 一掴みほどずつ残して、後はごみとして処理するしかなかった。
I also trimmed the other kind of herb, which name I recently found out - wormwood, it is. Anyway it was supposed to be the pest repellent herb, so I was planning to recycle it to make some sachets and put them in the drawers and the wardrobes - but what a hell, I couldn't believe when I saw heaps and heaps of white flies and mozzies behind the branches. I had to ditch the plan straight away.
最近名前を知った他の種類のハーブも選定した。ニガヨモギっていう名前。
それなんだけど、虫除け効果があるはずだったのね。それで後で再利用して小袋に入れて引出しとか押入れに入れようと計画してたわけ。でも何なの、信じられない。植え込みの枝の後ろに羽虫や蚊がわんさかといるではないか。計画はすぐおじゃんにするしかなかった。
The last thing I was meant to do was to clear those creepers on the left side of the house by the partition fence. It's a narrow area and they are spreading behind cactus plants and shrubs which makes the job harder. The roots are strong, and the stems are hard to cut with hands, plus the idea of having to crawl around the area where the flies are going all berserk, seemed crazy. Well, what I had done was enough for today.
最後に本当は家の左側の柵の脇に生えてるつる植物を取り除かなきゃなんないはずだったのね。狭いとこで、サボテンとか低木の裏にはびこってしまっているから仕事は大変。根は強いし、茎は手で切るのは難しいし、それに羽虫の集団ががぶんぶん飛び交っている中を這い回るのはバカな考えに思えた。 ま、今日の仕事はこれで充分かな。
The relief is that everything else has been finished.
It's cooling down, nice and breezy. I'm going for a walk soon.
これでそれ以外の仕事は完了したからほっとした。
涼しくなってきた。そよ風が吹いてて気持ちよさそう。
ちょっと散歩に行ってくるね。
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Showing posts with label Gardening. Show all posts
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Saturday, November 20, 2010
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Working on my garden again. (今日も庭仕事。)
I went to the preston market after a long while. The market is always crowded on Saturdays because they mark down virtually everything from vegies to meat to flowers.
久しぶりにプレストンマーケットに行ってきた。このマーケットは土曜日にはいつも野菜とか肉とか花、全部って言っていいくらい値段を下げるから込むんだよね。
First I bought some seedlings of basil, strawberry and chilli at the green grocery near the entrance. I should've leave it to last, it was a pain in the butt having to wiggle through the overwhelming crowd carrying the bag with fragile seedlings in it.
Fortunately, they were still going strong by the time I got on the bus, which was pretty impressive considering the harsh heat this afternoon and getting knocked by people at the market.
まず、入り口近くの八百屋でバジルといちご、とうがらしの苗を買ったの。最後に行けばよかった。繊細な苗の入った袋を片手にすごい人ごみの間をくねくね動いていくのは半端じゃなく大変だった。
幸い、バスにのった時も苗がまだ丈夫だった。今日の午後の暑さとマーケットで人ごみに押された事を考えたらすごいよね。
Once I got home I decided to finally pull out weeds by the fence and around the garage. The ground was still damp from all the rain we've had over the last couple of weeks. Since I had been procrastinating it for weeks, the weeds were out of control and were already as tall as my waist.
家についてまずフェンスの周りとガレージの周りの雑草抜きをやっと決行する事にした。
ここ２週間の雨のため、地面はまだぬるぬるしていた。
雑草抜きはもう何週間も伸ばし伸ばしにしてたから、もうぼうぼうで高さもワタシの腰くらいまで伸びていたの。
Just two weeks ago we mowed the lawn in the front and back yard and filled 3 large bags with grass, and this afternoon I got another 3 massive bagfuls of weeds and grass...and still haven't finished yet.
Well, I can't weed the whole garden all at once, so I'll finish one spot at a time.
たった２週間前、表と裏庭の草刈りして大きな袋３つ一杯にしたけど、今日の午後は、更に巨大な袋３つ分の雑草と草を抜いた。しかもまだ仕事は終わってない。。。
まぁ、一度に庭全体の雑草を抜くのは無理だから、一回に一箇所終わらせる事にしよう。
After this massive job, I transplanted the seedlings. This time I decided to plant them in the compost directly. There's a small concern with regards to the insects problem, since the compost is said to attract flies and stuff. However, flies are seen anywhere in my garden and it wasn't like heaps of flies were around the compost. Plus I often see other vegies and fruits popping out of the compost bed (obviously coming from the kitchen waste like vegetable peels and half rotten fruits), perhaps because the nourished soil is ideal for the hardy performance of the plants.
Anyway, let's see how they go.
大仕事のあと、苗を地面に植え替えた。今回は腐葉土に直接植えることにしたのね。腐葉土はハエとか羽虫みたいなのを寄せ付けるっていうから、害虫の心配は全く無いわけでもないんだけど、ハエとか羽虫は庭のどこでも見かけるし、特に腐葉土の周りに沢山いるわけでもない。それに、野菜とか果物の芽が腐葉土から出てるのをよく見るし。（野菜の皮とか、腐りかけの果物とかの台所ごみから育ったんだね。）多分、栄養度の高い土が植物の丈夫な成長に適してるからだろうね。
まぁどうなるか気長に待とうと思う。
The mint that my co-volunteer gave me is going strong. Silverbeet and spinach are also in great condition. I'd have to find some recipes using silverbeet though.
仲間のボランティアがくれたミントは丈夫に育っている。シルバービート（ほうれん草に似てる）とほうれん草もいい調子。シルバービートを使った料理のレシピさがさなきゃだけど。
Tomorrow's gonna be a busy day, too.
Time to hit the sack.
明日も忙しくなる。
もう寝る時間。
久しぶりにプレストンマーケットに行ってきた。このマーケットは土曜日にはいつも野菜とか肉とか花、全部って言っていいくらい値段を下げるから込むんだよね。
First I bought some seedlings of basil, strawberry and chilli at the green grocery near the entrance. I should've leave it to last, it was a pain in the butt having to wiggle through the overwhelming crowd carrying the bag with fragile seedlings in it.
Fortunately, they were still going strong by the time I got on the bus, which was pretty impressive considering the harsh heat this afternoon and getting knocked by people at the market.
まず、入り口近くの八百屋でバジルといちご、とうがらしの苗を買ったの。最後に行けばよかった。繊細な苗の入った袋を片手にすごい人ごみの間をくねくね動いていくのは半端じゃなく大変だった。
幸い、バスにのった時も苗がまだ丈夫だった。今日の午後の暑さとマーケットで人ごみに押された事を考えたらすごいよね。
Once I got home I decided to finally pull out weeds by the fence and around the garage. The ground was still damp from all the rain we've had over the last couple of weeks. Since I had been procrastinating it for weeks, the weeds were out of control and were already as tall as my waist.
家についてまずフェンスの周りとガレージの周りの雑草抜きをやっと決行する事にした。
ここ２週間の雨のため、地面はまだぬるぬるしていた。
雑草抜きはもう何週間も伸ばし伸ばしにしてたから、もうぼうぼうで高さもワタシの腰くらいまで伸びていたの。
Just two weeks ago we mowed the lawn in the front and back yard and filled 3 large bags with grass, and this afternoon I got another 3 massive bagfuls of weeds and grass...and still haven't finished yet.
Well, I can't weed the whole garden all at once, so I'll finish one spot at a time.
たった２週間前、表と裏庭の草刈りして大きな袋３つ一杯にしたけど、今日の午後は、更に巨大な袋３つ分の雑草と草を抜いた。しかもまだ仕事は終わってない。。。
まぁ、一度に庭全体の雑草を抜くのは無理だから、一回に一箇所終わらせる事にしよう。
After this massive job, I transplanted the seedlings. This time I decided to plant them in the compost directly. There's a small concern with regards to the insects problem, since the compost is said to attract flies and stuff. However, flies are seen anywhere in my garden and it wasn't like heaps of flies were around the compost. Plus I often see other vegies and fruits popping out of the compost bed (obviously coming from the kitchen waste like vegetable peels and half rotten fruits), perhaps because the nourished soil is ideal for the hardy performance of the plants.
Anyway, let's see how they go.
大仕事のあと、苗を地面に植え替えた。今回は腐葉土に直接植えることにしたのね。腐葉土はハエとか羽虫みたいなのを寄せ付けるっていうから、害虫の心配は全く無いわけでもないんだけど、ハエとか羽虫は庭のどこでも見かけるし、特に腐葉土の周りに沢山いるわけでもない。それに、野菜とか果物の芽が腐葉土から出てるのをよく見るし。（野菜の皮とか、腐りかけの果物とかの台所ごみから育ったんだね。）多分、栄養度の高い土が植物の丈夫な成長に適してるからだろうね。
まぁどうなるか気長に待とうと思う。
The mint that my co-volunteer gave me is going strong. Silverbeet and spinach are also in great condition. I'd have to find some recipes using silverbeet though.
仲間のボランティアがくれたミントは丈夫に育っている。シルバービート（ほうれん草に似てる）とほうれん草もいい調子。シルバービートを使った料理のレシピさがさなきゃだけど。
Tomorrow's gonna be a busy day, too.
Time to hit the sack.
明日も忙しくなる。
もう寝る時間。
I have to cut back the lavender bush. (ラベンダー切らなきゃなんないの。)
There are a few different kinds of lavenders growing around my house. The fragrance is subtly different from one kind to the other and each one is lovely in its own way.
ウチの周りには何種類かのラベンダーがあるの。香りが少しずつ違って、どれもそれぞれの美しさがあるのね。
Thanks to this year's consistent rainfalls all the plants in the garden are thriving, and lavenders are no exception either. Unfortunately some of them are getting in the way of cars because of the very reason. Our driveway isn't wide enough for them to grow freely, so now I have to cut them right back. *sob*
今年の安定した降水量のお陰で庭の植物はみんなのびのび成長。ラベンダーも例外じゃない。
残念な事だけど、その為に一部のラベンダーが車の通り道の邪魔になっている。ウチの車道はラベンダーが自由に育つには狭すぎるので、思い切り短く刈らなきゃいけないの。。。（涙）
Well I could put it off as long as the rain persists.
Meanwhile I am thinking of the good use out of the cut lavenders.
まあ、雨がやむまで伸ばしに伸ばせるよね。
その間に刈り取ったラベンダーのいい使用方法を考えてるところ。
ウチの周りには何種類かのラベンダーがあるの。香りが少しずつ違って、どれもそれぞれの美しさがあるのね。
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| The Cute Baby Lavenders |
今年の安定した降水量のお陰で庭の植物はみんなのびのび成長。ラベンダーも例外じゃない。
残念な事だけど、その為に一部のラベンダーが車の通り道の邪魔になっている。ウチの車道はラベンダーが自由に育つには狭すぎるので、思い切り短く刈らなきゃいけないの。。。（涙）
Well I could put it off as long as the rain persists.
Meanwhile I am thinking of the good use out of the cut lavenders.
まあ、雨がやむまで伸ばしに伸ばせるよね。
その間に刈り取ったラベンダーのいい使用方法を考えてるところ。
My struggle to become a good gardener.
While Melbourne
まだメルボルンはかなり寒いけど、もう時計を１時間早くあわせる時期が来ちゃった。
そう。もう来週の月曜日にサマータイムがスタートするの。ウソみたいでしょ？
It doesn't look like the days are getting that much longer. Wonder what's it like to get up believing that I managed to rise early and realise it is nearly 8 o'clock?
We've had like 3 days or so of warm weather since Spring started. Cold spring with steady rainfall is not doing much good to the plants. The balance of water and sunlight should be right for the healthy growth of plants.
日がそんなに長くなった様には感じない。今日は何とか早起きしたぞ、と思ってらもう８時だったとか、どんな気分なんだろうね。
春になってから、だいたい３日くらい暖かい日があったね。
安定した降雨量があっても、寒かったら植物には余りよくないの。
水と日当たりのバランスが丁度じゃないと植物はちゃんと育たないのね。
I've checked the herbs that I sewed about a fortnight ago (possibly longer), and still no sign of sweet basil which is supposed to germinate within 10 days.
However there was a good news. I saw the tiny seedlings of coriander & parsley (see the pics.)
２週間ほど（もしかしたらそれより長いかも）前に種を蒔いたハーブの様子を見てみたけど、１０日間以内に出芽するはずのバジルが未だ全く発芽の兆しなしなのね。
でも、うれしいニュースが。
コリアンダーとパセリの新芽を見つけたの。（写真を見てね。）
Here's the photo of a tiny coriander baby...（これはコリアンダーのベビーの写真。）
and a couple of parsley babies...
（それから２本のパセリのベビーたち）
Aren't they cute?
（カワイクない？）
Well, I'm not certain how much longer the basil seeds will survive in the soil. Will they ever sprout or what? I ensured to use the well-drained, nutritious enough soil for the bed...could it be overuse of the fertilizer causing the damage to the seeds, like something called PH balance is not proper, as some experienced gardeners say.
I don't have much idea of which nutrients a certain plant needs and which fertilizer has whatever the particular plant needs...I wish my nan (or my hubby's nan) were still alive to give me the tips.
まぁ、バジルの種が土の下でどれくらい生き延びるかは分かんない。
芽がいつか出るのか、どうなんだよぉ？植える時に、土壌には水はけのいい、栄養も適度にある土をちゃんと使ったのに。
もしかして、肥料の使いすぎで種をダメにしちゃったとか？
よく園芸のベテランがいう、ペーハーバランス？がよくないとか。
ワタシにはどの植物にどの栄養素が必要とか、どの肥料にその植物に必要な栄養素が入ってるのかなんてあまり知らないのね。ウチのお婆ちゃんとか、ダンナ様のお婆様が生きてて、アドバイスくれたらいいのにね。
For the time being, I'll just have to wait.
今のところは、待つしかないね。
まだメルボルンはかなり寒いけど、もう時計を１時間早くあわせる時期が来ちゃった。
そう。もう来週の月曜日にサマータイムがスタートするの。ウソみたいでしょ？
It doesn't look like the days are getting that much longer. Wonder what's it like to get up believing that I managed to rise early and realise it is nearly 8 o'clock?
We've had like 3 days or so of warm weather since Spring started. Cold spring with steady rainfall is not doing much good to the plants. The balance of water and sunlight should be right for the healthy growth of plants.
日がそんなに長くなった様には感じない。今日は何とか早起きしたぞ、と思ってらもう８時だったとか、どんな気分なんだろうね。
春になってから、だいたい３日くらい暖かい日があったね。
安定した降雨量があっても、寒かったら植物には余りよくないの。
水と日当たりのバランスが丁度じゃないと植物はちゃんと育たないのね。
I've checked the herbs that I sewed about a fortnight ago (possibly longer), and still no sign of sweet basil which is supposed to germinate within 10 days.
However there was a good news. I saw the tiny seedlings of coriander & parsley (see the pics.)
２週間ほど（もしかしたらそれより長いかも）前に種を蒔いたハーブの様子を見てみたけど、１０日間以内に出芽するはずのバジルが未だ全く発芽の兆しなしなのね。
でも、うれしいニュースが。
コリアンダーとパセリの新芽を見つけたの。（写真を見てね。）
Here's the photo of a tiny coriander baby...（これはコリアンダーのベビーの写真。）
and a couple of parsley babies...
（それから２本のパセリのベビーたち）
Aren't they cute?
（カワイクない？）
Well, I'm not certain how much longer the basil seeds will survive in the soil. Will they ever sprout or what? I ensured to use the well-drained, nutritious enough soil for the bed...could it be overuse of the fertilizer causing the damage to the seeds, like something called PH balance is not proper, as some experienced gardeners say.
I don't have much idea of which nutrients a certain plant needs and which fertilizer has whatever the particular plant needs...I wish my nan (or my hubby's nan) were still alive to give me the tips.
まぁ、バジルの種が土の下でどれくらい生き延びるかは分かんない。
芽がいつか出るのか、どうなんだよぉ？植える時に、土壌には水はけのいい、栄養も適度にある土をちゃんと使ったのに。
もしかして、肥料の使いすぎで種をダメにしちゃったとか？
よく園芸のベテランがいう、ペーハーバランス？がよくないとか。
ワタシにはどの植物にどの栄養素が必要とか、どの肥料にその植物に必要な栄養素が入ってるのかなんてあまり知らないのね。ウチのお婆ちゃんとか、ダンナ様のお婆様が生きてて、アドバイスくれたらいいのにね。
For the time being, I'll just have to wait.
今のところは、待つしかないね。
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Making Compost without Compost Bins
I was absolutely buggered last night, and started dozing off half way through my dinner.
It's the sixth (or seventh) time in 3 months where I missed my routine blog entry (not bad hey?).
As with muscle pain, luckily it's not as bad as I had anticipated. Plus I had a long good night sleep, so I'm planning for another productive day.
This morning when I went outside to check where I removed weeds and grass roots, I also checked my 'composting spot'. A good compost bin could cost hundreds of dollars and I couldn't be bothered (or 'couldn't afford' to be precise) to purchase one. People used to grow vegetable without compost bin in the past, so I should be able to make compost without one.
My composting system is very, very simple. I have about 70 square-centimetre wide spot under the massive gum tree, where I chuck all the vegetable peels and tea bags, etc. Buy a smallest box of worms, throw in half the box of them, maybe mix some potting mix and cow manure if the soil condition is really bad...then cover the area with some grass clippings. That's all I do and do nothing else afterwards...earthworms do rest of the work. :D By this time you would already know that I'm hopelessly lazy!
So I checked the spot and saw there a few seedlings popping out of the compost. It happens when the compost is in good condition, dark and moist. All the necessary nutrients are there - I don't have any knowledge of PH balance or nitrogen balance as often referred to in the gardening books, but the balance must've been perfect.
It never ceases to amaze me how the vegies germinate from thin peels. Last time it was onions and carrots, this time it was potatoes.
I transplanted just to see if it will keep growing in my vegie patch, it worked with onions but I doubt if the 5mm-thick peel has enough nutrients in it to produce potatoes.
I remember my granny used to make compost by herself.
She'd burn newspapers (sometimes ads as well, which is not very good for it contains chemicals) and add the ash to compost that she made out of sewage and kitchen waste and garden soil. If I wasn't mistaken she was using part of the drainage to let it break down...hmmm, doesn't sound right, does it?
I think she was taking the pile out just before it started blocking the drain pipe.
Anyway, my point is that she wasn't using compost bin either.
There must be more ways to make compost without using compost bins.
It's the sixth (or seventh) time in 3 months where I missed my routine blog entry (not bad hey?).
As with muscle pain, luckily it's not as bad as I had anticipated. Plus I had a long good night sleep, so I'm planning for another productive day.
This morning when I went outside to check where I removed weeds and grass roots, I also checked my 'composting spot'. A good compost bin could cost hundreds of dollars and I couldn't be bothered (or 'couldn't afford' to be precise) to purchase one. People used to grow vegetable without compost bin in the past, so I should be able to make compost without one.
My composting system is very, very simple. I have about 70 square-centimetre wide spot under the massive gum tree, where I chuck all the vegetable peels and tea bags, etc. Buy a smallest box of worms, throw in half the box of them, maybe mix some potting mix and cow manure if the soil condition is really bad...then cover the area with some grass clippings. That's all I do and do nothing else afterwards...earthworms do rest of the work. :D By this time you would already know that I'm hopelessly lazy!
So I checked the spot and saw there a few seedlings popping out of the compost. It happens when the compost is in good condition, dark and moist. All the necessary nutrients are there - I don't have any knowledge of PH balance or nitrogen balance as often referred to in the gardening books, but the balance must've been perfect.
It never ceases to amaze me how the vegies germinate from thin peels. Last time it was onions and carrots, this time it was potatoes.
I transplanted just to see if it will keep growing in my vegie patch, it worked with onions but I doubt if the 5mm-thick peel has enough nutrients in it to produce potatoes.
I remember my granny used to make compost by herself.
She'd burn newspapers (sometimes ads as well, which is not very good for it contains chemicals) and add the ash to compost that she made out of sewage and kitchen waste and garden soil. If I wasn't mistaken she was using part of the drainage to let it break down...hmmm, doesn't sound right, does it?
I think she was taking the pile out just before it started blocking the drain pipe.
Anyway, my point is that she wasn't using compost bin either.
There must be more ways to make compost without using compost bins.
Me, the slack gardener.
As the weather getting more wintery, sweet basils and chives are on their way out of the growing season.
Last week, one of the basil plants started to flower and now I’m waiting for it to start producing the seeds.
With chives I don't even have to worry about getting seeds.
I know that from my experience. I grew some chives in my backyard 3 years ago for the first time. It was around the end of summer I sewed the seeds.
They grew healthy and produced a good amount of crops, which I enjoyed using in many dishes until they mysteriously disappeared in winter.
I panicked at the seeming ‘death’ of chives at that time, telling my hubby the story who was equally disappointed to acknowledge it. Well, he was none the wiser when it came to gardening – I should’ve asked my mother-in-law about it.
Then 3 months later, when spring came, I saw something appears to be baby chives.
At first I didn’t believe that they are, so I pinched the tip off a leaf and sniffed it. It smelled like chives. Still skeptical, I tentatively put it on my tongue. It was chives.
Then I did Google search and found out that chives shrink to form bulbs in winter. And then new seedlings sprout in spring.
'Sounds like an ideal herb for a lazy gardener like me!' I fell in love with chives instantly.
I didn’t have much luck with rockets this season, though.
I decided to grow them from seeds instead of seedlings, because my past few attempts of growing them from the seedlings were unsuccessful.
The germination was early enough, and they had been growing quickly until one day, I found some leaves suddenly gone. Damn!
And then I found the culprit. There was a fat caterpillar stuck to the back of one of the leaves. I reluctantly used pesticide (natural one) to control it, which didn’t work well.
I guess it’s too gentle on the likes of them (caterpillars)!!
However, I decided not to kill them. I took them one by one and released them...but they kept coming back in spite of my ‘generous’ mercy of sparing their lives!
After a while I lost my motivation to look after my garden.
At least, corianders and parsleys have been kind to me. Despite my negligence they are thriving unaffected by any of those nasty pests.
Corianders are amazing! I use them to add to salad or use some leaves to garnish Thai curry. I absolutely love the extra flavour it gives to these dishes!
But with veggies...I really don’t think I can grow any.
The grass popping out everywhere in the garden bed, with the roots so deep and wide spread that it seems uncontrollable.
Before planting the seedlings in spring, I dug the soil deep and made sure I removed every trace of grass as well as weeds, but after about a couple of months they came back.
It’s the fight that I can never win. I can’t remove grass without removing veggie plants nor can I stop their invasion into the garden bed either, can I?
And weed killers are toxic and I don’t want to use them at all!
I got an idea.
Invent some super veggies that are even stronger than grass and weeds!
Last week, one of the basil plants started to flower and now I’m waiting for it to start producing the seeds.
With chives I don't even have to worry about getting seeds.
I know that from my experience. I grew some chives in my backyard 3 years ago for the first time. It was around the end of summer I sewed the seeds.
They grew healthy and produced a good amount of crops, which I enjoyed using in many dishes until they mysteriously disappeared in winter.
I panicked at the seeming ‘death’ of chives at that time, telling my hubby the story who was equally disappointed to acknowledge it. Well, he was none the wiser when it came to gardening – I should’ve asked my mother-in-law about it.
Then 3 months later, when spring came, I saw something appears to be baby chives.
At first I didn’t believe that they are, so I pinched the tip off a leaf and sniffed it. It smelled like chives. Still skeptical, I tentatively put it on my tongue. It was chives.
Then I did Google search and found out that chives shrink to form bulbs in winter. And then new seedlings sprout in spring.
'Sounds like an ideal herb for a lazy gardener like me!' I fell in love with chives instantly.
I didn’t have much luck with rockets this season, though.
I decided to grow them from seeds instead of seedlings, because my past few attempts of growing them from the seedlings were unsuccessful.
The germination was early enough, and they had been growing quickly until one day, I found some leaves suddenly gone. Damn!
And then I found the culprit. There was a fat caterpillar stuck to the back of one of the leaves. I reluctantly used pesticide (natural one) to control it, which didn’t work well.
I guess it’s too gentle on the likes of them (caterpillars)!!
However, I decided not to kill them. I took them one by one and released them...but they kept coming back in spite of my ‘generous’ mercy of sparing their lives!
After a while I lost my motivation to look after my garden.
At least, corianders and parsleys have been kind to me. Despite my negligence they are thriving unaffected by any of those nasty pests.
Corianders are amazing! I use them to add to salad or use some leaves to garnish Thai curry. I absolutely love the extra flavour it gives to these dishes!
But with veggies...I really don’t think I can grow any.
The grass popping out everywhere in the garden bed, with the roots so deep and wide spread that it seems uncontrollable.
Before planting the seedlings in spring, I dug the soil deep and made sure I removed every trace of grass as well as weeds, but after about a couple of months they came back.
It’s the fight that I can never win. I can’t remove grass without removing veggie plants nor can I stop their invasion into the garden bed either, can I?
And weed killers are toxic and I don’t want to use them at all!
I got an idea.
Invent some super veggies that are even stronger than grass and weeds!
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