Yesterday’s gardening efforts that I forgot to post yesterday. Youngest moved the raised sleeper bed to the correct spot and Eldest and I grabbed some free chicken food/mulch from the verge.

We hadn’t been long after the last update when we accidentally acquired more stuff. We had returned to Bunnings much sooner than anticipated as we had forgotten to buy replacement heat lamps during the last trip and I decided that I really wanted that Elkhorn fern. And of course a couple more things we “needed”. The creeping thyme seeds in the picture is actually the result of another gardening argument. There was some really nice grass when we moved in (after we got it under control as everything was massively overgrown, the house had been unoccupied for many months prior). J was always adamant that he would not under any circumstances ever bother wasting any effort on things that didn’t feed us specifically and it didn’t really matter because the grass didn’t care.

A wise person would have done this before buying more seeds. Unfortunately we are not wise people. So many duplicates XD and so many past “sow by/before” dates x_x

A couple of plants started flowering (the bulbs were here when we got here) and I accidentally bought a new one when we went to get painting supplies x_x

Came for replacement heat lamps and an elkhorn fern. Not pictured is the house paint we also needed and several seed packets which we didn’t really. Bunnings (and by extension nurseries) is getting as dangerous as Officeworks.

It began unexpectedly with the paint I’ve been needing (we have some unexpected asbestos walls which need to remain painted and the current coat is peeling and we didn’t get the renos done that I wanted so I told J it had to be done before summer ended, and I’m running out of summer). He was doing a Bunnings run for some stuff to repair leaky taps and asked if I needed anything, I told him to get Cottage or Federation Green paint and pretty much any white that looked like it would go with it (I don’t much care as Cottage Green and white is not my favourite but I’d never gotten around to redoing it in Cottage Red and we’re planning on repainting the inside in greens).