I know it's a little late, but I thought I'd do an overall for what has happened each month. That way I can look back and hopefully get a little planning in for next year. It's been a good month in the little blue shack. Alice and Wendy my two new chooks came to live with us.
April is a great month for fabulous sunset shots, I don't know that I shared many with you, but I took heaps of photos.
The annual canoe race has inspired my aunt and uncle who are keenly involved with the dragon boat racing scene, hopefully with their connections we'll have something extra special happening this time next year.
Hubby started the deck, well at least laid out the boards that we had inherited from my brother when he sold his last home and removed a temporary deck that wasn't council approved. No deck yet, but that timber is now being put to great use and I'll have an unveiling shortly.
In the garden construction of new beds is underway. The ground has been levelled for the top two gardens near the bananas and the bottom layer of the new wicker beds have been put in place.
Green caterpillars have taken over the garden, they are eating the tomatoes, the kale, parsley, hibiscus, rosellas and basically I've found them on most green things. The tomatoes that haven't been gobbled by the caterpillars in wicker bed number two are just turning red and I picked the first of them a couple of days ago.
I'm still getting a few passionfruit from both the dark and yellow passionfruits.
The mandarin tree has fruit all over it which although small are edible (actually quite sweet) compared to last years bitter offering that we turned into jam.
I harvested the last of the peanuts as they were dying back under the overgrown tomatoes. Note to self, find a sunny spot for these guys next year, a special place all of their own.
The asparagus is just starting to die back and is browning off, but still sending up the occassional green shoot, I know that last year I read that I should just cut them off (apparently they don't die back completely in our climate) and get them ready for replanting, but I don't think that was until winter.
The water chestnuts are almost ready for harvest, their leaves almost completely dead now.
