Back home for a week before heading off again... and I have a pretty empty week to do some postering for our ensemble, and to spend a few hours in the garden each day. The kids haven't been helping out, and my wife has been swamped with playing work... so, there are quite a few things that have been stacking up to be done.

First things first... just checking out the strawberries... I'm not sure that they are going to last that much longer, it is now getting pretty damn cold in the mornings, and there is definitely frost on most mornings on the ground. But the strawberries are still pumping out the occasionally little red delicacy... but again, with so little sun, I'm not sure that the rest will really ripen up much.

But I'll pick the ones that are ready to eat... even if I'm the only one who will eat them because they look too funny for the kids to eat!

But the main job for this week is to continue the lawn project... slogging away, chipping in little bits to expand the coverage... and then hopefully, by spring the grass will be established enough over a large enough area at the back for the kids to enjoy... hopefully, without snakes!

The last batch does seem to have taken to the ground... or at the very least, not died in the last couple of weeks. So, that is always a promising sign! But I will need to weed out more area... and making sure that I gather up all the roots that are in the ground but looking dormant. They look deceptively dead, but I think if I don't get them out, I'm going to have problems in the spring!

The sage is one of the last of the summer crops... and it is definitely also reaching the end of its productive life. The frost really accelerated the demise... but i think I can get a few more meals out of this... especially if I pick them soon and dry the leaves.

I had started the weeding with trowel... and it was pretty decent, but I started to notice that I was only really picking and pulling out the things that I could see... and if I had a closer look, there were many interwoven roots that might not have been dead, but just dormant for the winter. So, I switched to the little hand mattock with the pointy end to break up the surface so that I could just pull easily at the loosened roots and debris. I found that I was getting more stuff out this way... and with the cold and damp winter ground, it wasn't too hard to do. If it were summer, it would have been a jarring experience for my arm!

... but just plugging away! My wife said she will join me in this week on the ground... so, that means that we might be able to get the soil out later in the week, in time for us to roll out a new patch of lawn before I leave again!

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