I have been getting quite a few sqaushes in my veg box and I started keeping the seeds so we could plant them.
I confess I just scooped all the middle bit into a tupperware container which was starting to go kinda funky but was soon reliably informed that separating out the seeds and drying them was the way forward. Whoops.
Squash seeds drying in the front room
Filed under: Doing | Tags: bench, fixing, pallet, raised bed, reusing tiles, tidy garden, tidying
Yesterday we made a second slightly lower raised bed using some more pallets from down the road, I fixed the broken bench we were given from next door and Claudia and Vanessa made the place look beautiful with tiles found in the garden and some love.
Vanessa making a raised bed
Claudia tidying
One fixed bench in the sun
Looking kinda nice, hey?
Filed under: Planning | Tags: drawings, garden, grey water, Recycling, sketches
Pretty soon we want to put grey-water recycling into action.
This will involve diverting waste water from the bathroom and kitchen into the garden and then filtering it using sand and reed beds before sending it into our pond and other places around the garden.
Laura has done some ace sketches which I thought we should share with you…
Laura's grey-water recycling sketches
Filed under: Collecting, Doing | Tags: clearing, compost, dead bed, hackney downs, junk, mulch, mulching, pond, rainbow chard, sheet mulching, strawberries
Hackney Downs compost area with official council sign
Main area fully mulched
After mulching we split into two groups – Claudia and Parastow broke up some strawberry plants, which had been rescued from somewhere else, into smaller pots so they will survive the winter with some water and love.
Next they planted some rainbow chard which was already looking fairly tasty as it had started life in the same place as the strawberries.
Freshly planted Rainbow Chard
Meanwhile Laura and I began to clear out the bed at the rear of the garden which revelead a dead bed frame, a kids trike and scooter, three barbeques, a couple of dead chairs and numerous other bits of junk.
We also spent an age filling up the pond but it was empty again this morning so we obviously need to do a better job of blocking the plug hole!
Dead bed and other misc junk
