C3 community parkland and walking track - week 20

On a dreary, cold, wet wintry day, what do sensible people usually do? Probably not spend it outdoors gardening like us. 

In all honesty, I did want to spend the day at home, lounging in my pj's, and perhaps snuggled up in bed with a good book. As always though, looking back on the day, I'm thrilled with the progress. 

It was a slow and steady kind of day. That pace seemed just right, as we achieved a lot in only a few hours, as you will see below.

One section of the garden is still waterlogged. And how it pongs!

My main job of the day-mulching. The boys loaded up 2 trailer loads of mulch and dumped it on the carpet. I then mulched the bed with it. It was cold enough to see my breath today- perfect manual labour weather.

I was a bit lazy with the paper today, and too tired to cut and drag wet carpet onto the bed to suppress weeds.

The boys used the remainder of our tree mulch on the main access point garden beds.

The completed garden. The plants have had a great soaking over the past few weeks, and the mulch was nice and damp. These plants should continue to thrive in these conditions.

Hubby agreed-at last- that a chair would be just lovely here.

Forgot to mention that last week, hubby started clearing some obstructions from the creek. He continued today and actually got the creek flowing again. 

Seeing the creek flow again is so good. Not only will the smelly, stagnant water disappear, hopefully the swampy garden sections will drain now too. 

There is still some building rubble, branches and posts laying around, but the flow seems to be improving.

I imagine this creek bed in several months time- planted out with gorgeous flora and looking like a pristine waterway.

These agaves seem to be thriving with all this rain. I already notice each plant has new centre shoots.

The boys tackled the driveway as well today, shoveling up a huge amount of gravel the rains had washed onto the road. It still looks like a mini four wheel drive track however.

After a bit of tidying and some weeding, the day was done. Rain or shine, we are getting this garden done! Five months in, and we have made tremendous progress. Even with a huge amount of work ahead of us, with what we have already achieved and the lessons learnt along the way, we know we've got this. 

That's all for now, lovely readers. I look forward to bringing you more updates soon :) 

Please note this is a repost from my wifes blog http://arabelleswindow.blogspot.com.au