Another working bee
Davis St Community Garden successfully completed another working bee with new vegetables planted and some plants harvested and further beds cleaned and watered. Although there was much talking while the watering took place it was a chance for us to catch up. We have considered that our next meeting should be at Boneheads which is a micro-brewery which has partnered with a food van that is decidedly retro and looks quite cool parked out front, I would say that it is giving the traditional pubs a run for their money.
So, back to the garden. I got to show off my QR codes, all laminated and stuck to the top of teacher of the plots and on one of the signs. Of course now I have to populate the pages that are the destinations of those QR codes and find out what useful information can be transferred and in what format… words? podcast? video? – Anyway the great experiment continues.
After planting, weeding and watering I consulted the moon phase calendar which dutifully advised me that we had indeed picked a wonderful day to plant things, and water things.
Sunflowers – Vincent Van Gogh
One of the other things we commented on was the great sunflower seed crop that was growing in the front yard of a house in Pridham St which in essence is a continuation of Davis St up to Racecourse road. We had grown a couple of sunflowers over the season in our plots but here was a lovely scene that Van Gogh would have been proud of.
This is what gardening is about… the community. While we there, one of our neighbours dropped by and became involved in the conversation. We are hoping that she will become part of the community garden community.
It was great to see a ladybird in the garden on an eggplant bush. This insect is termed a beneficial insect because it helps the farmer control pests in a natural way.
I didn’t have anything to harvest today, but I did plant a wonderful viola which has small edible leaves that you sometimes see sprinkled on dishes in cooking shows… I will have to try them with my two minute noodles.
Speaking of which, I did clip some shallot leaves which are very much like chive leaves rather than spring onion leaves to place in my two minute noodles along with freshly chopped chilli provided by Joe and Lily from their chilli bush in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne.
Gardening completed, Michelle wandered up to Racecourse road to eat goat at the Abyssinian Restaurant about 4 minutes walk from the garden with foods from Ethiopia – the Horn of Africa, that pointy peninsular on the North-eastern side of that massive continent.
The temperature reached 30 degrees today and already some of the leaves in our Parson’s Reserve Park across from our house are turning red, acknowledging the arrival of autumn – the temperature doesn’t seem to have receive the memo about autumn arriving. No problem, we are enjoying these days of sun, low humidity before the inevitable bleakness of winter arrives.
