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
The chooks arrived in town on a little truck crammed with all the other chooks on the tenth of December. I think they were so glad to be away from the noise and clammer of the farm and all the other chickens that they settled into their new home readily and even began laying the … Continue reading The Chooks!
I have decided it could prove an interesting exercise to stop ignoring the weeds in the garden and to allow them to grow and do an audit of those that I can identify. The first thing I have noticed is that once you allow weeds to grow beyond any stage where you might initially identify … Continue reading Garden Weed Audit
Petit Paradis 