Moss love

I have a need for a terrarium at the moment, so I have started cultivating some moss. I found this little patch all dried out in a drainage channel and I swear, it just followed me home!  My first attempt at a terrarium was in a lightbulb because I didn't have any other enclosed glass options.  The Jade Plant is a cutting from my nan's garden.

Stencils and street art

Hedgehog preparing to cross Barry Drive... a precarious mission for any little beasty.

Who are these ladies and what are they doing behind All Bar Nun?  And why is the pig-nosed slapper wearing Y-fronts?  

The First Produce

Some cherry tomatoes and garlic have already been turned into sauce for homemade pasta, and some boysenberries have topped my homemade yogurt, but I'm really quite excited about mini watermelons and eggplants which I've never grown before.  The watermelons are growing at an astonishing rate - from the size of a grape to the size of an apple in a week.  The eggplants are still at the purple flower stage.  Succulents probably  don't really qualify as 'produce', but I'm loving their flowers at the moment.

Gardening - the first half done!

Rocks are arranged in a poor-man's drystone wall (fingers crossed it holds together in the absence of evil cement), gypsum is added through much mattocking of clay, proper soil is wheelbarrowed in on top - much thanks to the marvelous Mr F and Miss M :) Veggies are off and away!

Gardening - the mid-way mess

Rank renters' hedge gone, much to the disappointment of many a poor spider! Poor Ash the Astra and I did seven trips to the other end of the world (Torrens) to collect free rocks in 33 degree heat - not a pleasant experience!  Much thanks to the donors and the wonderful recycling forum that is AllClassifieds (http://www.allclassifieds.com.au/). 

Gardening - the before shot

The rank renters' garden - horrid neighbours-be-gone hedge, sick yellow mondo grass, faux redgum woodchip and the styrofoam remnants of the veggie garden from my last rental. As you can see, only a foot wide strip available for edible planting and that just would not suffice. Mr F's third career could well be landscaping, such was his skill and enthusiasm (though looking at the exemplary shovel-leaning, perhaps council worker should be up there too!).

The Rug of Procrastination

I should have been finishing my short story today, but the sewing machine was calling to me for the first time in a while so I sat down to make this little rug (a doormat really). The fabric is from a bolt of stretch cotton lycra that I bought at Savers in Sunny Frankston last year.  I stole the idea from Talking Squid, who sells his recycled t-shirt rugs on Etsy (http://www.etsy.com/shop/talkingsquid). If he uses the same technique I did, he must only be making about $5 an hour!

Art on the streets of Turner and O'Connor

     

       

I found these little guys while wandering through Turner and O'Connor this week on my hunt for moss and the location of the new wetlands.  The little guy sitting under the tree is my favourite - he was on the concrete path and I almost trod on him. I didn't notice the bird in the tree or the sun in the corner until I got the photo home.