No dig gardening

Yesterday was my first workshop at The Watershed. I've booked in for another in a couple of weeks. I don't live in the area where The Watershed is based, I am a Sydneysider but from almost an hour away. I did a search on our local council website and did find some sustainability workshops, but there is nowhere near the variety as The Watershed's nor are they held so as often. I'll be checking out the shop next time I am there, we don't have a shop like it here. When I was walking through Newtown they had a lot more interesting shops than we have, there must be a large Indian population there. There are a lot of Indian clothing stores there. I'll have to check them out, we only have one nearby, I love the clothing and it's so much cheaper than the same sort of things from boutiques.

The workshop I took yesterday was on No Dig Gardening, it was very informative, wasn't expecting hands on experience or to bring anything but paperwork home. Was so surprised when we got to build o\ur own little garden in a pot and take it home complete with plants. Very cool. I'd reccomend everyone to search for similar workshops in their areas, make suggestions to your council if they aren't available.



I've planted parsley, coriander and a couple of sugarsnap peas in it. When the peas sprout I'll probably move them into their own pots.

Now I just have to put my new found knowledge into action and build a big version down the back.

I don't have much time at the moment, am working again on a store setup, long hours 8am - 6pm (when the trucks turn up, twice this week we've had early days). It means I leave home a little after 6am and am back home after 7.30pm. It's hard physical work, I am covered in bruises. It's going quite well, we have a really good team who really get on with the work so much so that they have brought opening day forward. On Friday we were waiting for a truck to arrive and everyone was sitting waiting for it, our boss came up and asked for 4 volunteers to do a small job - everyone jumped to their feet. None of us wanted to be sitting around doing nothing so we all got stuck into the job - only a few minutes later the truck arrived and we were flat out for the rest of the day. I am hoping to have some work after the store is set up, everyone asks why I would want to travel so far, it's an hour train ride, but I use the time to catch up on reading or knitting so it's not wasted time. Wish me luck.