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December 2007: a walk around the
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This is our first year with real harvests of all kinds. We blanch and
freeze many kilos of broad beans, zucchinis, strawberries, raspberries, loganberries,
boysenberries and blueberries. Carrots, potatoes, lettuces, kohlrabi
and much, much more.
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Two chestnut trees. The tree on the left is doing very well. We planted them
eighteen months ago. The tree on the right was "pruned" by a
possum. It is slowly dying now.
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December 2007 in the kitchen garden |
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Sugar snap peas |
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Snowpeas |
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Telephone peas |
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Rotation one: peas, beans and brassica |
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Artichokes, bush beans and sorrel |
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Beans on teepee with lettuce underneath |
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Cabbage white fly damage on
sugarloaf cabbage |
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Potatoes |
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Red bergamot
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December 2007 in the orchard
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Apple Bramley |
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Apple Irish Peach |
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Sour cherry Morello |
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Red currants |
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Jostaberries |
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Strawberries |
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Raspberries |
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Loganberries |
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December 2007 in the vegie garden
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Cucumber plants in greenhouse |
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Tomato plants in greenhouse |
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Eggplants in greenhouse |
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Tomato plants. Last year Currawongs discovered
that tomatoes taste very nice! This year we plan to fold the
chicken wire over the plants when the tomatoes ripen, to protect
them against the big black birds. |
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This is the last section of potatoes which we
planted in the vegie garden. They are Kennebec and Tasman potatoes
and were planted on October 10th. |
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Two rows of broad beans interplanted with
brassica.
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These are Coles Dwarf and Early Long Pod. They
don't grow as high as Aqua Dulce and don't need to be supported. |
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Left: potatoes
Middle rows: corn, broad beans, cucumber, zucchini, pumpkins
Right: asparagus |
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Zucchini |
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Corn interplanted with pumpkins. |
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By the middle of December Britta harvests the first
potatoes. |
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Golden Nugget pumpkin |
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Christmas 2007
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We celebrate Christmas in the middle of a very dry summer.
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