Planted the winter garden

My stash arrived from Diggers and I very excitedly went through it all:

I had wanted to get it in the ground straight away, but a comedy of errors prevented me from doing so until today. I wrote out my guide with some help from a friend (who actually knows what he is doing) and my new comanion planting chart:

All my seeds are tucked away under some fine earth stolen from the chook pen, and I am being very patient waiting for them to grow. I know they will take more than a day - but I will look anyway!

Tomorrow's priority one job is to get the dog fence up to make sure Bonnie doesn't decide my lovely winter garden is a good toilet or spot to bury her bones...

We are planning to form the beds for the summer garden and pop in a row of broad beans - as that is about all that will grow there in winter. I am going to have a go at growing oats as a green manure. Hopefully they will keep down the weeds as well.

I wanted to form up the gardens with some off-cuts from the local saw mill (Bowerbird) but they don't do it on Saturdays (I had thought they DID do it Saturdays and had been waiting all week....). So we have used what we can find and will make bigger beds next year. I will do the summer gardens with the timber this week while we still have the use of a friend's trailer.

I still have a heap of Nashis to dry/poach/stew. I poached some the other morning and they were delish! I am keen to get the bottling happening while I have the loan of a friend's Fowlers set. I have ordered a container of seconds' tomatoes as the school garden did not put out the huge number of last year. I need to get my Passata and relish stocks done before I runb out of time!