The snow peas I planted to add nitrogen back to the soil in my pots were straight up eaten, and while I have some drink bottle hats for the early stages even more mature plants become lunch. I don’t currently have the energy to stay on top of that.

That works fine because Australian natives don’t need as much and I’m now planning to turn the pots over to some of the smaller varieties for something lower maintenance. There is one lonely nasturtium surviving in the area I tried to regreen but I’m tired of having my flowers ruined. Pots for pollinators it is.

(One annoyance though is I had bought a larger container of liquid fertiliser intended for vegetables and not suited to natives. I think that can go on the pots of cat grass.)

I’ll have to rip the tomatoes out in four of them. Tommy toes are a game little variety. Looking a little ragged but still alive and fruiting.

I’ve harvested from the Jack Be Little vines - all 6 tiny pumpkins. I have them on the windowsill to cure. The fruit whose vine died of dryness before it was quite ripe yet is starting to orange up a little now. I would have loved to see some golden nuggets but those plants grew slower and like I said also got eaten.

I still haven’t had the energy to get the compost bin started but perhaps the weather is too cold for it to really get the decomp going? Perhaps I’ll leave the leaves for the bugs to shelter in and clean up what’s left when they’re done.

I haven’t been going into the yard lately cause there is nothing to really maintain or water (that was a mistake).

Went out for something this week and found that the yard has been completely taken over by weeds. Guess I have a garden job for me now; eliminating all the weeds.

I just resowed with the last of the cat grass seeds and decided to order a single packet of red kangaroo paw seeds too, as in the Australian native flower. They seemed like they would fit in pots and attract pollinators.

It’s disappointing not to plan on growing vegetables but I’m being realistic about how much maintenance I can give things.

I bought some red kangaroo paw seeds but now realise that they’re perennials. There’s no way I’ll use the whole pack and I’m not sure about tying all of my pots up with a long term commitment.

The dust bowl has proven that plants don’t tend to last there so I don’t want to condemn them, and I’m not particularly keen on going around my neighbourhood doing guerrilla gardening.

Maybe when the time comes I can keep a couple and put extra seedlings out to be taken, pass them on to a friend’s kid, or donate the rest of the seeds to a seed library.

I have seeds that are getting a bit older so I should pass them along too while they might still be viable.