< malted wattle seed cake with honey cream cheese icing & salted white chocolate crumbs >
I’m still recovering from our epic weekend in the garden.
If you missed it on Stories we had a big (BIG) truck deliver us 3/4 of a cubic meter of soil (FYI that is A LOT), 1/2 a cubic meter of mulch and a huge, huge pile of stones for a massive spring garden and landscaping refresh.
Because we live in the inner city there was nowhere for the truck to dump them except into a car park out the front of the house on the road. So we had no option but to complete the task in a day. After 10 hours of wheelbarrowing, bucketing and spreading we were done! We left a small pile of mulch and soil on a tarp, that we moved to the side of the footpath, over night, planning to fill lots of big pots on Sunday for our summer veggie crop. While we were at the hardware shop on Sunday morning buying some tomato stakes SOMEONE STOLE IT. Yep. If you don’t nail down your soil in this neighbourhood someone will bloody steal it!! I was LIVID.
Sigh.
Anyway, after a second big day in the garden, redistributing and figuring out how to fill our pots, re-constructing our fruit tree prison out of netting and stakes (the fruits trees are locked up and the possums, hopefully, are locked out) and planting loads of summer veg we finished after sundown last night.
There is still a bit more that needs doing but today my hamstrings need a rest and I need some cake. I’ll put more pics of the garden up on stories soon. If you see someone with soil and mulch in their pockets around North Carlton/North Fitzroy arrest them!