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February 2007: a walk around the
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Our first chestnuts! But the trees are far too
small still. We should have removed the chestnuts. We didn't and
they remain stunted. |
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We build a fully enclosed chook pen and buy
three eighteen week old Isa Brown chickens. |
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We rely on the pony manure as fertilizer, but we
don't have enough grass and so we have to buy hay.
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We plant two more olive trees. |
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Lots of little olives! But only a few mature. |
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February brings more smoke from bushfires. |
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February 2007 in the kitchen garden |
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Corn and zucchinis |
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Telephone peas and snow peas |
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Broad beans |
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Different varieties of tomatoes |
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Chilean guava, chives and pumpkins |
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Cucumbers |
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Bush cucumbers |
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Kohlrabi |
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We plant fifteen blueberries of different
varieties |
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Squash - they look great, but they taste much better
when they are harvested earlier!
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Britta with the day's harvest |
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February 2007 in the orchard
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We planted these trees only seven months ago! |
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Berries |
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Hazelnut bushes.. |
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This apple tree has already reached the next training
wire! |
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Cherry tree |
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Slug damage on cherry tree leaves. Organic
treatment with bacillus thurengiensis helps within a day or two. |
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