Feeding time! The g-pigs are doing much better since they have been left to roam the garden. They rarely even pass a 4 metre line, choosing instead to hang around their boxes and shelter. The chooks have developed a real appetite for the tomatoes, but not quite to the extreme as the g-pigs, particularly Jazz.This … Continue reading 7th March 2011
It has been a busy couple of months. Mainly since November. For the most part of it the garden has had to make do with the watering it got and the feeble moments of attention administered to it between excursions to the shed and back.Much of the time spent in the garden lately has either … Continue reading February Update
Here are some pictures from the garden over the last month or so.Above, cherry tomatoes forming.Zucchini beginning to fill out at the edge of the main vege bed.Alpine strawberries which were grown from seed from Diggers Club seeds.They have given us about a small handful of flavoursome fruit each morning.The Nelly Kelly finally took off … Continue reading Little Observations
What an amazing day. We went from 37.5 degrees Celsius around midday to a heavy rain shower from large, grey ominous clouds. Very much like a tropical climates.This was great for the garden with around 15mm recorded around town. Some of the larger trees and shrubs were weighed down with the rain on their branches. … Continue reading January Rain
This last fortnight or so around Christmas we have been experiencing what the local fishermen call The Black Easterly.The weather has been warm, quite comfortable actually with lots of cloud cover and rather overcast with a strong wind from the east, hence the term Black Easterly. This is apparently caused around this time of the … Continue reading Garden Update
Petit Paradis 