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August 29th, 2008: |
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The animals enjoy the warm weather. Temperatures reach amazing 15 degree today. Almost a bit too warm for the ponies with their heavy winter coats. |
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) The green manure started to form flowers and we slashed it to keep the nutrients in the soil. In the middle: a row of Pink Eye potatoes. |
Right: the broad beans from the greenhouse are now planted out. And the
Chinese cabbages, Sugarloaf cabbages and mini cauliflowers raised in the
greenhouse are doing well.
Last season we spent far too much time hand watering everything. Now we use drip lines on the rotation beds. They are pressure controlled and should provide equal water at each dripper almost regardless of line pressure. |
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) Lettuce and spinach in pots provided us with fresh greens all winter. |
Sown in the green house in August: |
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Left: leek and red cabbage
Right: potato onions |
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) the hazelnuts are budding |
The large orchard:
companion planting with apricot tree, lavender and daffodil |
) the orchards have been "spring cleaned" |
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August 31st, 2008 - A new berry orchard: this new berry orchard is fully netted against birds and will be our main area for berries. We used orchard netting and with the help of Klaas, Kristine and Britta it only took a few hours to cover the 9m by 10m berry orchard. |
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| The kitchen garden | |||||||||||||||
) first silverbeet seedlings |
) onions |
) garlic "Tassie Purple" |
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) Brussels Sprouts planted in January |
) Sugarloaf cabbages grown from seed in the greenhouse and now planted out into a bed where green manure was just slashed and dug in. |
) We are still eating from these Brussels sprouts which were planted fourteen months ago. |
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