July Prepping

Well July is here already. I'm pushing ahead with prepping our vege garden for the coming spring and am expecting a whole truck load of mushroom compost to arrive early next week. I'm also itching to place a seed order but am waiting for the new seed catalogue to come out shortly. 

I heard that in Australia there's another toilet roll shortage due to the sudden lockdowns, so that's made me stock take our supplies. I should be buying more weekly as we use it up but tend to just get a load monthly as and when I remember, so I need to stock up on that and also dog food.

We have just purchased more fuel cans and these are full and lined up and labelled !!!!!! which has never happened before. We always relied on hubby's memory to tell us what's where and in which can. So at least our generator will function for longer if need be. 

When it's raining, I'm watching Youtube videos of inspirational vege gardens.  

I do like the idea of the "Queensland air conditioner", especially as it does not take any fuel to run and will function in the event of a power cut.  

My prepping will involve a lot of watering the garden to keep the food plants alive.   Stored rainwater has been used up, so it is down to the hand pump in the garden.   The well might run dry - the previous owner had to move the location of the well as some land was lost to the road being straightened - and they quickly found out that that the new well ran dry so had to hook up to the town supply for use in the house - so I only use the well for the garden and for water to flush the toilet, but it still ran dry two years ago.

Our truck load of mushroom compost arrived yesterday. It's a much bigger pile than I had envisioned - and I've got to move it all with my little wheelbarrow!  Anyway it's lovely looking stuff and will hopefully produce some really great veges.