Apres le deluge, moi

It seemed about time for a classical allusion. As it hasn't rained for 2 days we have actually been able to get on with a few things around the place.  Needless to say a lot of these things have involved removing weeds and mowing grass.

I have previously referred to my ride-on mower needing a new tyre.  After one mow between floods the other rear tyre also collapsed.  I decided that this was largely due to the machine spending the last 3 months standing in mud or water so have constructed a small stage for it to live on.

As the vegetable garden is drying out a few things are growing again.  However the spuds are basically gone and few of the tomatoes look happy with their situation.  On the principle of 'plant on the shortest day, harvest on the longest' (and them heading for seed) Frances dug up the garlic yesterday.  It looks OK although I doubt if it will be a full year of supplies.

I spent some time working further up the block.  A major thrust for this was a need to cut a walking track through the seeding grass.  A little earlier in the year a visiting friend asked what kept the grass down, to which the answer was  "kangaroos".  That was then, this is now, which fairly tall grass everywhere.  It did have the side benefit of a lot of seed being mixed in the clippings so it should make a useful start on a reveg project.
 
As we had noticed a few briars growing I took my brush-cutter up to deal with them and found that the grass was also concealing a lot of bramble growth and some serrated tussock.   As the latter had gone to seed the approach had to be cutting off the seed heads and bagging it before spraying.  Hopefully I got it before the seed fell off.