I’ve been out digging in the garden this afternoon. We have a little triangular plot in the middle of some brick paving just off the kitchen that is begging for a herb garden. Yesterday, I pulled all the weedy dead stuff out and gave it a preliminary dig-over before it started raining, and today I attacked it with the big garden fork, and dug a whole lot of compost in. It’s looking all rich and lush and lovely now, just right to start tucking some baby plants in. I forgot to take any before shots, but here’s what it looks like now, as the rain starts up again:
It seems it has been a herb-garden in the past; as I pulled out all the rubbish, I found a little patch of chives there in the back corner, a big tall spike of garlic in the centre of the patch (okay, I already new about that one – it’s taller than me!), and some scraggly-looking parsley. On the left of the picture there is some Hebe that I’ll shift into a pot, or over into one of the border beds.
We already have some green-ness happening in pots along the back verandah – cherry tomatoes in four different varieties (some red, some yellow, all green at present), as well as a single big fat yellow capsicum.
While I had the camera out, I figured I’d better make good on past promises and post some progress pics of my current WIPs:
almost finished purple tofutsies socks,
baby alpaca (oooooohhhh, sooooft!) Swallowtail Shawl, five repeats thereof. This had me so nervous, because I’ve never worked off a triangular chart before, but then I remembered my mantra: I am not afraid to frog. So I cast on and gave it a go, and it’s coming along nicely. It’s not quite automatic yet, but I’m relying on the chart less with each repeat. I’ll give it a lifeline shortly, just to be on the safe side.
I love the shots of green growing things, especially as the view from my window is nothing but frosty. The shawl is pretty, too. It *almost* makes me want to knit one, except I never wear them and, you know, I barely have time to knit as it is at the moment. Perhaps someday I’ll make a triangular blankie.
Yummy! home grown hewrbs and vegetables!
Don’t neglect the lifeline – even if you never need it, you’ll be more comfortable knowing it’s there as those rows get longer and longer!
Awww, alpaca! Love the color, too, that will be gorgey!
oooooo, shawl action, makes me want to cast on a new one – just don’t ask me what I’ve done on the Wollmeise since I got home…