Week 9 - More Weeding

More Weeding. That just about sums it up really. Weeding among the lavender. Weeding the vegetable garden. Spraying the weeds around the outskirts of the yard.

At least all of the lavender field is done now, even though it's taken 17 hours over the past two weeks. Doesn't sound like much, but it was incredibly time consuming, fiddly and boring work.

And about a quarter of the vegetable garden is done too. Last week I mentioned I thought we had tomatoes growing too. Now that turns out not to be the case. After reading several gardening guides (including Yates), none of whom mentioned it, I finally stumbled across this quote from the NZ Vegetable Gardening Guide 1976 "Quite often after the potato flowers, small tomato-like fruits appear on the tops, these are poisonous!" Gosh you'd think some of the other gardening books might have mentioned that! Seems even growing something as simple as potatoes isn't quite as simple as it seems.

The lavender is now ready for harvesting. We were planning on doing it on Monday, however now it appears the weather might not be right. So we will just have to wait and see.

-M