We have been looking for a new place to live for a few weeks now due to our current landlords’ decision to evict us with “No Grounds” after a couple of issues with the house. The notice has simply brought forward our hunt. We were keen to remain in the area as we love the place and have begun making connections. We have now secured a property within 10 minutes walk. The new property is cheaper and a single level, good for the Mum’s as stairs are no longer their friends. A win all around. We sign the papers on Friday and move in across the weekend. Packing had already begun, but now we are moving into overdrive.
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This week and weekend has been very wet in Sydney. It is basically miserable and is preventing me from doing a number of things, including gardening. As a result there has been a devout lack of gardening posts on the site of late. Today is no different in terms of the weather as it has been steadily raining all day.
This is a bit of a bonanza for the garden in preparation for the move with all my plants receiving a monumental soak. The plants were struggling at times with an extended dry period prior to this rain setting in. The plants have now had an extended soak and are looking healthy once more successfully recovering from their heat stroke or other dilemmas.
Generally the garden was coping, however as happens with container gardening the combination of thirsty plants and evaporation the moisture was leeching quickly. Those plants that I had mulched in the two sessions I mentioned in my Mulching Day post were doing better than the others. However, it is fair to say that most of the plants were spending the day starved of moisture and looked forward to a daily drink.
On this problem I have some products to try and fix this that will deliver moisture, and liquid fertiliser directly to the roots of the plants in a truly recyclable manner. That said given our impending relocation to Wollongong I am holding off implementing these measures until the plants are settled once more. Back to the plants.
The plants that have benefited the most seem to be the 2 varieties of lettuce and spinach. The Green Coral lettuce was suffering due to its transplanting. This would not have been a major issue, except the heat caused it to continually dry out and struggle. Now it has regained its former vigourous growth and green foliage.
The Red Coral Lettuce was already struggling prior to its transplant. Remember this is the lettuce that looked like a Christmas tree. I had to free it from its previous dilemma, and then it was struck by the heat extremes and the constant lack of moisture. It is now looking very good and finally beginning to spread and look more like a lettuce than a Christmas tree. I am happy for that as I have been unable to havest anything from this plant to date due to it being a runt when bought, then crowded by the Green Coral lettuce in the shared accommodations.
My perennial Spinach was also struggling with the heat. The paradox of this plant is that it loves full sun, however that means that it dries out constantly and then wilts. This plant was starting to benefit from the rather deep mulch that I had placed around it on Mulching Day, however the constant soaking has turned the plant right around. It has once again resumed vigorous growth.
The only plants that a really struggling are a number of very immature sun flower seedlings. They are struggling not through a lack of care, but because something has pecked off their leaves. The stalks are thus back in the home made green houses and are remaining green. With luck they may produce some new leaves and grow, however that is more hope than anything.
So all in all the garden is very healthy, which is good news given that in less than 10 days time they will be facing a new challenge in a new post code. The weather in Wollongong will be reasonably similar to Sydney at this time of year, if anything a bit milder. That is a good thing for both the garden and the gardener in my opinion. As such I do not expect much of a culture shock for the traveling plants. The plants will have some months to adjust to the area, prior to winters onset that will be a few degrees cooler than Sydney.
In terms of moving the plants we shall be using a truck and ensuring there will not be wind shock on the journey. So I expect the plants to travel well and simply assume a new position in the yard of the new digs. The thing that I will need to prepare for transport with much more care is my worm farm.
I have been trying Google over the past few days, however drawing a rather large and consistent blank on the subject. I am thus thinking that I will drain the worm juice, remove any usable vermicompost to some storage containers (to use at the other end), and then tether the three layers together. The tethering should keep the layers in place and reduce the chances of the farm separating in transit. If anyone has experience, or knows someone who has had experience, in relocating a worm farm please let me know of any ideas.
Fingers crossed I will get a shot at the garden tomorrow as I need to dig out my black mondo grass from the front garden bed and plant it in some pots. I am buggered if I am leaving the plants that first kindled my interest in gardening behind. They are good to look at and drought resistant, and thus need to come.
Thats it for now, and please any fellow vermiculturalists with experience relocating worms please contact me via a comment to this post.
Today marks the day that we have finally looked for accommodation in Wollongong. We have decided to make the move to Wollongong for a number of reasons.
Primarily we are looking for a bigger house, but at an affordable price. Thus moving to another part of Sydney was not going to cut it. Given Wollongong is an hour from Sydney and affordable it is a logical choice. Although a city it is more akin to a large town in many respects.
Another compelling reason to move to the ‘Gong is the wish to lead a more relaxed life style. Don’t get me wrong, I like Sydney, but I like to be able to relax aswell and in Sydney there is just always something on. Wollongong though looks like it will be more like the old Fremantle pace that I fully enjoyed. A pace where you are able to relax if you wish, or find something to do if you wish to do something. Not always on the go, go, go as the Sydney life is.
The final reason is that we are looking to purchase. However, given the uncertain interest rate future we are not in a position to move immediately. Thus we shall rent and check the lay of the land. By the time we are ready to buy hopefully the interest rate situation will be more certain, and heading downwards. Wishful thinking I know, but one can live in hope.
After filling out the rental application forms, and seeing the houses that they are for, and listening to the passion that was dripping from the family I am really looking forward to moving. The only thing I am dreading is the longer commute to Sydney for work, it will though give me time to construct a blog using either a standard pen and paper, or potentially the iPod/Mac. I will have to investigate that further.
Moving and Entrecard
Well we are into our third day moving and I am feeling it. My legs are slowly turning to jelly and I am sore all over. I still have another 2 days of this in mass move mode. Then probably a week running the small stuff down to the coast and cleaning this house.
Internet connection is yet to be arranged in the new house. The phone is there, so it should just be a matter of getting the ADSL/ADSL2+ programming done. However, due to that I am at large portions of the day without any connection, a real pain especially when it is overnight.
The lack of connection also means for all my Entrecard droppers I am unable to reciprocate the drop quickly. So if you drop on me can you please comment on this post and I will reciprocate as best I can. I know that looks like a grab for comments, but I want to ensure that you all get rewarded for your drops. So, if you take the time to comment I will drop 10 points into your kitty, as such it will be worth your while.
For the Entrecard advertisers thank you for choosing my blog to advertise on. I have sent you a thank you for advertising already.
For the potential Entrecard advertisers watch the advertising price drop. Now is a great time to advertise on SCHWOIT so get your checks ready. At the time of writing this I am at 306 credits, I expect that to crash soon.
It is now time to move the worms and the garden tubs into the truck and move them to the Gong.
Anyways back to the back breaking move.
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