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December 2009 - Christmas with the kids |
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2009 was the wettest year for over 50 years in our area. It will be January soon and our water tanks are almost full. They overflowed for many months during winter and we order a second 22700 litre tank so that this won't happen again! The weather turns hot just before the end of the year: 38 Celsius on New Year's Eve! |
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Left: buckets full of broad beans
Right: Violet Sicilian cauliflower |
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Our first broody hen |
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The orchards |
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) plums |
) pears |
) red currants |
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) sour cherries |
The fruit and berries in the orchards are doing very well this year. Out
of all our fruit trees we only lost two newly planted apple trees. The
ground was too wet for them!
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) cherries |
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The vegie gardens |
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) Purple podded climbing peas |
) Climbing bean Purple King |
) Teepees covered by climbing peas |
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) The pumpkin patch |
Right: the hay bale potatoes our hay bale potato experiment continues! It took the potato plants two months to emerge from the bales, but they are growing well. We harvest a few young Pink Eyes from the end of the row and they are delicious, but still very small. They are deep enough inside the bales to be safe from sunlight and don't show signs of "greening". But the bales are now very much composting and on the verge of falling apart. Let's hope they won't do that before the potatoes are ready for the harvest. |
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