July 9 & 10

Rain could not get us away from doing little bits of garden work this week. Similar to last week, we focussed on clearing the southern part of the garden, while also layering up the potato bins with another tire of dirt, and also twining the peas.

Snow pea flower

an example of a broccolli flowering from our container garden

Amy's experiment:
testing if limiting photosynthesis for a chinese cabbage will sweeten it

southern area of the garden A (social area?)

southern area of the garden B (shed)

false alarm:
what i initially thought was a threatened indonesian migratory bird turned out to be "just" a common swamp hen helping us with the weeding (thanks liz for saving me the embarassment)

Hamish choosing which sucker to eliminate (and put in the "to be re-used" pile, of course)

growth in our potato bins prior to the second layering

Finlay rolling the tire up to layer the potatoes, (with mum and brothers in the background)

At 5 years old,
the boy has muscles close to that of what you'd expect from a typical 22 year old student-gardener from Manila

Hamish picking his lucky turnip

Finlay, 11; turnip, 2 months (no genies this time)

See you all next week!