Nearly end of Winter

And we've been hit with 1 degree C and frost this morning!

The Greenhouse project has started - I spent a lovely Sunday clearing out the area marked for the greenhouse, just behind the carport next to the big shed.

It will be wonderful once it's built as it would enable the planting program to run more smoothly (as much as I can anyway!).

Vegie Garden zone is doing well - harvesting lettuces, spinaches, broccoli, peas and herbs. I also harvested citrus fruits - mandarins, oranges and lemonades. Lemon Butter coming up! The mandarins are great this year.

The Fruit Grove had a haircut a few weeks ago and looks lot better now. We just need to fence it to deter rabbits and mulch it all over before Summer hits us.

The Banana Circle's getting very crowded and we will have lots of bunches to munch through very soon! Time to work on the circle before snakes come back.

We've got kittens, both gals - in training to be the 'barn cats' for our big shed to get the rodent problem fixed and scare off the pesky possums. At the moment the feline sisters are inside the house as they are only 12 weeks old. Kids just love them to pieces - the kittens are really great, quite laid back and affectionate!

Not much else has been happening as it's the maintenance period for this property. Hopefully within 2 weeks I'd have something interesting to report and share photos.

Cheers till later!

Oh, what a frosty morning...

Last Tuesday (12th), it's minimum was -2, according to the outdoor thermometer!

First I saw this on lawn

Then I realise it was a nice and light frost so took photos.

Thus it is mainly a photos blog, rather than an informative blog...

Blades of grass

Beaded daisy flower - Gorgeous!!

Jonquils (hoped I spelt it correctly)

Then I checked out the vegie beds zone and discovered they were dusted as well...

Ice beads on broccoli leaf

Dusted spinach leaf on dusted mulch

Even some potato plants were dusted

The edges of lettuces were laced with frost - colour isn't good here.

Another beaded kale leaf

You can see some ice on this leaf!

It was gorgeous to see very tiny ice cubes on the red cabbage leaf

Once again dusted baby spinach leaf

A geranium leaf really shows it attracts frost really well

The front were dusted as well...

Not easily seen but almost all lichen were dusted but as sun hit, all dissipated...

Nicely laced leaves of weeds in lawn

View to South - frost all the way

Lovely yellow rose - all beaded

One of first two plum trees flowered for the year

Magnolia - ready to open soon...

View to West - frost all the way with Tassie following me

Finally went inside and saw this lovely sunlit fake flower arrangement so thought I'd add as well...

So I hope you've enjoyed all this.

Teralba report: 6 baby pears are growing out of two pear trees (the only pear trees I can see have flowered and fruited - seems to be a while to grow, etc); plum trees flowered - two trees so far, but already other three are not far behind; several apple trees budded; an old nectarine tree all budded and a few flowered. Harvested another bucketful of Lemonade, oranges and broccolinis.

Cheers till later!