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April 2, 2007
My new herb patch!
The move is finally over ... thank God! It turned out to be quite hectic with both Nick and I rushing to get things done and organised. It feels good to be home. I love this place, it is a gardener's delight. There are giant conifers, native Australian gum trees, wild lavender shrubs, lemon trees, candy pink hibiscus trees and so much more that still remains to be explored.
Ever since we first saw this house, we knew it would be our home. We saw the potential it had and we visualised adding our touch to it. The first thing I did just before we moved was weed, weed and weed. That was followed by pruning and lopping with my new tree lopper and shears. A day's work made such a huge amount of difference and opened up the front and back yards simultaneously. My mind was buzzing with ideas and choices. What to plant in that empty patch of garden bed under the bedroom window? Which hibiscus plant to graft, the one with the red closed buds or the beautiful pink bloom? Then I decided to slow down and do what have always been doing whenever we moved to a new place, plant a herb!!
This being our very own home, the one of our dreams, I decided that it deserved its very own herb garden, yep you heard me; not A herb, but an entire herb patch. So, I enlisted the help of my three year old and together we set out digging and clearing soil in a long garden bed under our family room bay windows. After preparing the soil, I watered it and sowed seeds for coriander, parsley, basil, rocket, fenugreek and mint in little square patches. After dosing the seeds and soil with a little plant food, our work was done. [My three year old had managed to pick out a little heap of rounded pebbles by then and was on the verge of building a little fort, his desire to help Mummy long gone ... scattered away by the distraction of being just a boy!]
That was yesterday. And even though I know better, I have been out there a million times to see if the first leaf has pushed up the soil and unfluttered. All in good time though. Good things come to those who wait, so I will. And when the herbs blossom, there will be pictures!
Posted by Gel at April 2, 2007 11:14 PM
