Construction zone!

There's been a bit of progress on the garden in the last couple of months, interspersed with filthy freezing southerlies when we've huddled indoors and let the plants look after themselves. A lot of what's been going on is construction. First there was the renovation of the raised bed outside the kitchen, which went from this:through this stage, as Julie pulled off the ugly old corrugated iron:
to the finished version, with another row of fence palings and a large quantity of compost added to the clayish soil:
The final structure could do with a lick of paint, but it's much nicer than it was, and growing a nice assortment of vege seedlings already.

The Labour weekend project, as well as a 5-year-old birthday party, was the construction of a chookhouse, ready for when we get ouselves some chickens some time soon. It's nearly finished, as you can see below, just needing a few finishing details - flashing on the corners of the ply box, the wire finished off, and the interior furnishing. That'll be a roosting dowel and some laying boxes. We've got a door in the end of the run, and the roof of the box lifts up. Julie has a lead on a flock of birds to live in this fine structure - look out for pics in our next blog update!We also acheived some traditional Labour Day planting - lettuces and beetroot in the raised bed, tomato seedlings down the end of the garden, boysenberries and rasberries against the shed, a boronia by the steps and I'm sure a few other things that I've forgotten. All in all a productive weekend.