May 20th
Of course you never get entirely rid of kikuyu, but the netted vegie garden is looking remarkably free of it, and I am covered with scratches from trying to remove it from around the loganberry hedge. But good discoveries underneath the jungle of weeds – some ripe raspberries that think spring has come early, four asparagus crowns which look VERY dormant, if not dead, and a blueberry bush sprouting when I’d given it up for dead three years ago. Also burgeoning rhubarb and chokos creeping as fast as the kikuyu roots. Still being imaginative in finding different ways to cook chokos, but it’s getting very difficult to give them away. They are growing exponentially. The feijoa are also bountiful… and the weather is crisp, still and fine, with wonderful starry clear skies at night. The chooks are very happy to be let loose outside their run and then put themselves to bed quite happily when the sun goes down. And I think I still need another trailer load of cow manure from Seminis!
