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| February 2010 - the harvest continues | ||||||||||||||||
| The hay bale potato experiment comes to a close | ||||||||||||||||
) Some of the freshly harvested hay bale Pink Eyes |
Last August we planted 4kg of Pink Eye seed potatoes in hay bales. We had
no other choice! The ground was far too wet to plant potatoes directly
into the soil. We didn't plan to hill the bales (how would you?) and
planted them quite deep into the bales to keep the new tubers away from
the sun. It took the plants two months to emerge from the bales and they
never grew as vigorously as our potatoes normally do.
We harvested the Pink Eyes in February and got about 12kg of potatoes from 4kg of seed, a ratio of three kg of harvest to one kg of seed. Normally we would expect to get nine kg of harvest for each kg of seed. Not a spectacularly good result, but not too bad either. After all, usual planting had just not been possible anyway. The bales had received a good dosing with liquid fertilizer at time of planting but no other work had gone into this project. |
) Fresh hay bales for the next season |
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| A new layer flock of hens from traditional breeds | ||||||||||||||||
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This is our new layer flock. All birds are from traditional breeds of
chooks and all of them hatched on our farm between August and October last
year. The breeds include White Leghorns, Welsummers, Minorcas, Araucanas
and a few Welsummer / Plymouth Rock crosses. We hope that they will supply
us with a colourful mix of eggs for our stall at Salamanca Market, Hobart.
The odd one out: one white Araucana pullet hatched from a dozen Lavender Araucana eggs we bought from the mainland. The photo on the left shows the white Araucana together with two White Leghorns at the front. |
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| The harvest continues | ||||||||||||||||
) Plum President |
) Prune Splendour (14kg from one small tree!) |
) A variety of tomatoes |
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| Some of the apples we pick in February | ||||||||||||||||
) White Transparent |
) Tydeman's Early |
) Gravenstein |
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) James Grieve |
) Twenty Ouncer (over 500g per apple!) |
) Ribston Pippin |
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| Recipes: a new project (coming soon) | ||||||||||||||||
) Apple-Streusel cake |
We are self sufficient in fruit and vegies and now also in eggs and chicken.
After the harvest it's time to preserve and to cook. We enjoy trying
out different recipes and we plan to add a recipe section to this
website.
These photos show a few of the dishes for which we will include recipes soon... |
) Chicken fricassee |
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) Stuffed Golden Nugget pumpkins |
) German Plum cake |
) Slow cooked chicken legs |
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