How about these marigolds for colour! Today it was 9 degrees in the morning but these flowers just keep flowering. We want to show you particularly our old style potatoes, planted in a no-dig garden on the lawn. We planted 2 beds this way and one bed the traditional way , in troughs and hills. That was just before the big rain. Well, all the spuds in the troughs rotted---yuk! and THESE ones in the no-dig beds are just flying. We have to put mulch on every day to keep up with them. That has meant 2 trips to cane farmers to get the mulch. The first one, last Friday, was to Rodney's farm down near Coolum. It was a lovely trip and we got the bales loaded by Rodney and a road worker-- very friendly and nice. But the cane had just been cut and it is just big bits of cane and green leaf, and no good for the spuds. It will be good in about six months, after it has been rained on and rotted. So, on Monday we made an emergency trip to Neill's farm, as we know his mulch is so rotted we could eat it. He was busy, but his father, who, Neill says ,has reached his "use by"date heaved along with us and we got it loaded. ( these bales are VERY heavy). When we got home, and unhooked the trailer, we almost lost control of it up the hill beside the house, and nearly wiped out M and the car. Whew. Hopefully, no more compost for a while.
As you can see Dais is very inquisitive!