Discoveries in the garden

[gemfyre]

Matt discovered this lurking behind the hibiscus and some other bushes at the back of our garden.



I was intending to buy a compost bin almost identical to this! I dragged it out of the garden - it's covered in spiders and cockroaches and snails and god knows what else. Some genius had put a plastic bag and a can in it and there was a bit of mulch left in the bottom, which is just sitting in the garden now.

Now, to get rid of the bugs on it. Find out where I should put it, and get composting!

And my herbs have picked up after a cool change in the weather and good watering. The sage and parsley look a lot better now, the coriander is still a bit yellow and limp, I hope it picks up. I have to restrain myself from using it and pulling off all the leaves before the poor plant has time to establish - I LOVE coriander.

Comments

[darcerin.livejournal.com]

Oh! I love your herb farm. :) We tried to grow some last summer, and they were overzealous, and basically killed each other off. :P We're going to have to grow them in separate pots this summer so we don't see another mass murder. :P

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can see myself potting out a few of these into their own pots. I've heard parsley, mint, coriander and oregano all go a little crazy and take over.

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

Ooh, score!

Don't you love when stuff like that happens?

[ahrian.livejournal.com]

mint grows like crazy too, ours was huge but when we tried to bring some with us when we moved it didn't make it. I think the only ones that made the move were the parsley and the lavendar. Anyway... lucky find on that compost bin!

[minxx-21.livejournal.com]

Herbs! Yummy!!

Unrelated question - what uni degree did you do? =)

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

BSc. in Conservation Biology (with a minor in Animal Biology). :)

[minxx-21.livejournal.com]

Wow. That is EXACTLY what I am thinking of doing! I have been looking at degrees to get into for second semester this year, and asking friends with similar interests/that work in jobs that I would like what degree they did. My friend at the zoo did biology at Curtin, but from what I've read the Cons. Biol degree interests me more. What was it like? Hard? More importantly, was it interesting? Easy to get a job when you've finished? =)

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Some of it was hard, some was downright horrible like the damn law and statistics units. But most of it was very interesting.

Jobs are few and far between and often don't pay spectactularly. I had that 9 months in Broome (a position I probably would have gotten even if I didn't have the degree), but that was pretty much survival pay (but one hell of an experience).

I haven't had any luck finding work in the field yet. :(