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Winter 2010: a building project in the middle of winter |
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Our house is growing too. The time has come to add two more bedrooms to our one bedroom house. And there will be a work area for Silke to give her more space to hand-bind our personalized children's books. |
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In the greenhouse Up until now we only grew plants in the greenhouse in pots. This is recommended because it is easy to get rid of the old soil from the pots and use new soil for new plantings. Sometimes we got good results doing this, but more often than not the potted plants did not do well. The large exposed surface area of the pots soaks up a lot of warmth and cold as temperatures change. Plants in beds rather than pots are getting much more stable temperatures around their roots. This is what we do now. We realize that we have to replace the soil from the beds before replanting to avoid a build-up of fungus, but we accept this and enjoy a good supply of Asian cabbages and greens, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce and spinach all through winter! |
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The vegetable garden left: now is the right time to let the Runner Ducks roam through the vegetable garden and decimate the snails right: over-wintering carrots. Silke harvests them by the bucket load. They have done very well this year. |
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The chooks Left: we sell our free-range eggs from heritage breeds of chooks and ducks at our stall at Hobart's Salamanca Market. Right: at the end of August the first fertile eggs are in the incubator. It's a late start to the breeding season, but building the extension took up so much time this year. |
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