Ideally I would have waited to plant all my seedlings until some cooler weather, but just like my attempts to follow moon planting, I find that there are days when I have the time and just need to get things done!
Gardens are fantastic at keeping you mindful of what is going on. If you put a job off for a for a few days, produce goes rotten, goes to seed, or you lose it to pests. There is always another task staring you right in the face and keeping you in the moment. I’ve found that just going with what nature presents and trying to run with it, rather than trying to fit plants around my schedule and personal preference is the way forward. But this is sometimes easier said than done. I’m still trying to follow Brett Cooper’s (Limestone Permaculture) advice and do an hour in the garden everyday on whatever needs to be done now. Even if that means having a cuppa in the forest, because that needs to be done now!!
A good job that there are plentiful flowers about to keep my spirits up whilst I go around all the rest of the place tidying up tomatoes, pumpkins, pruning the fruit trees and chopping out the excess vegetation from summer. I have compost coming out of my compost which isn’t a bad place to be.
Happy organic matter recycling and I’ll see you again in a couple of weeks.
