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| Spring 2011 | ||||||||||||||||
| The winter 2011 was a long and wet winter. Green manure seeds rotted in the ground and all our water tanks are full. The winter creek ran much of the time, month after month. Finally the fruit trees are blossoming. What a relief! Parts of the large orchard are quite a bit wetter than we would like them to be, but all our trees have survived. | ||||||||||||||||
) Nashi pear blossoms |
) Sour cherry Morello blossoms |
) Cox Orange blossoms |
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| In the greenhouse | ||||||||||||||||
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Left: the potting bench in the greenhouse is filled with seedling trays; corn, pumpkin, zucchini, eggplant, tomatoes. Everything is growing well and waiting for warmer times to planted into the garden beds. Right: some of the salad greens growing in the greenhouse. We harvested them all through winter. |
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| The first chicks | ||||||||||||||||
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Left: some of the first chicks. French Marans, Salmon Faverolles and Lavender Araucanas. Right: French Marans eggs. French Marans hens are only medium sized (in Australia) but lay large eggs! The colour is quite dark, in reality quite a bit darker than on the photo. |
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| The vegie garden | ||||||||||||||||
) Pink Eye early potatoes planted in late August are doing well. They got frost burn in September but recovered. |
) These onions were planted in May. The rainy winter did not harm them at all. |
) Early October and the main crop of Dutch Cream potatoes goes in. |
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Garlic, lots of it! Year after year we were fighting weeds and grass in the garlic beds. The garlic is planted in April and stays in the ground for 8 months. That means either a lot of weeding and possible damage to the garlic or a garlic bed that almost vanishes in a sea of grass and disappoints with small garlic bulbs. A friend told us about his idea to put down a weed mat and plant the garlic through holes in the mat. What a brilliant idea this is! |
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) Garlic planted in April into a weed mat. Photo taken in October. |
) A wheelbarrow full of garlic. |
) This year the garlic bulbs are large and of great quality. |
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| The kitchen garden | ||||||||||||||||
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Left: finally we have the kitchen garden back into operation. It is
fully covered in bird mesh and the peas are doing really well and are safe
from hungry beaks.
Right: salad greens in November. The two new planters are a success. They are filled with a mix of compost and sand to provide drainage and nutrients. |
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