getting back into it

After a bit of a holiday from blogging, I have decided to get back into it... I guess I got a bit disappointed from the constant setbacks and didn't really have any accomplishments to publish.

Spring has come and gone and I still don't have a garden in :(. The rotory hoe worked for a couple of hours then the rope pull got jammed and I couldn't start it again. I had to pull the front off and rewind the rope. I didn't get to that until a couple of weeks after it happened (I got sick the next morning) and I haven't been able to start it since then.

Next I had all my little pots laid out full of seed raising mix ready to plant seeds in and the kids tipped it all over the grass when I wasn't looking.

Next thing went wrong: the kids found my seed stash. out of about 100 packets of seeds I had been collecting to start my new garden, I only have 10 left..They planted them all through the gaps in the decking (I don't know if they expected something to grow or not)

So no garden yet, but 2 days ago I started digging in the old greenhouse area. I was going to do that anyway because it is soft enough in there to dig by hand. But the chickens found the peas I planted in there and I had to fix up the chook run so I could lock them up, I still don't know how they kept escaping but they have been in there 3 days now and are still there.

Next trip to town I will be getting seed raising mix and we will be off again. If I get some stuff planted in here, hopefully we can get the thing repaired (we have plastic, but need to replace most of the wood) and have summer veg through winter.