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

[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? =)