Our first
event was to give a presentation to Caloundra Garden Club, a very active club
with over 100 members present. They enjoyed the ‘Clever Gardening’
presentation.
Our second
event was a short trip to Thornlands to give the ‘Victoria Point Garden Club’
the ‘Clever Gardening’ presentation, a much smaller club with about 40 members
present.
Then it was
onto work in the garden.
A very dry
month without any rain, so it was hand watering the whole garden.
I must admit
it is a job I hate but one that has to be done if we want to keep our plants
alive.
I broke my
Fiskars Pole Pruner but with the 25 year warranty I was able to get another one
sent to me by Fiskars, what a great company and great products.
Andrew came
and delivered 25 bales of Sugar Cane mulch, we go through about 150 of these
every year. I find it great mulch and never find weeds in it.
A really
big job was to empty and clean out two ponds, this was really hard on my back
and I still have not recovered.
Trouble was
I filled the pond up with rainwater and killed most of my fish, I should of
realized that was wrong and I should use tap water with a chlorine neutralizer,
so I had to do it all over again.
The second
smaller pond was the same only on the first refill the water went off and I found chicken bones
in the bottom, so I had to empty and refill, then the water went off again,
this time I found lumps of cake in the bottom, so again empty and refill. I
then put wire across to stop the birds dumping food into it.
Another BIG
job was to re-pot all my Amorphophallus, this time in a better draining mix as
I lost a few to the dreaded rot.
I built a
new trellis in the garden.
Some really nice orchids out this month.
Other than
that we are busy in the house painting and putting new carpet down.
