September 22nd, 2008 AndrewD
Well we now have approx 13 metres by 2 of new vege patches which have walls (on three sides) of pea straw(bales). This method will hopefully help with the wind, heat and moisture retention. Also it will provide us with lots of mulch for next year. So in total with the other vege patches I have approx 36m2 vacant (or soon to be) for spring/summer planting and I still don’t think that will be enough. I will be planting the pumkins, water melons, Minnesota melons and zucchini all elsewhere so they can just sprawl.
So in the first straw bed (approx 3×2) this will be corn, I plan to plant 4 seeds each week. This should give us (assuming all seeds come up) over the summer approx 24 – 30 corn plants.
The next 5 metre bed will be tomatoes and capsicum. The last 5 metre garden bed will be beans (hopefully we will get enough to dry. On top of that we have approx 3 other available (or soon will be) beds (another 10m2) . I still think I am a bed or three short, but we will see how they go over he next few weeks.
Two of the three straw beds
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September 22nd, 2008 AndrewD
Spring has now hit us (and they say it will be a warm spring). And the fruit trees are now blossoming. The peaches are the first ones with a mass of pink flowers.
The peaches are first to blossom
The next is the quince with a mass of white flowers, the rest are just still budding, but I expect they too will break out in flower over the next month.
The nut trees are still basically ’sticks’ hopefully they to will show signs of life soon. Actually we are beginning to get worried on the nut trees, they were bare root stock but there have been no real signs eg budding/leaf growth. So if anyone has any suggestions, they would be appreciated. All 11 other trees (fruit) seem OK.
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September 22nd, 2008 AndrewD
Three weeks ago it was my daughters 7th birthday (Alyssa). And for the first time I was not there. Not because I did not want to be, basically because it was a Tuesday and I was at work in Sydney. It is times like that I really hate this commuting between Yass and Sydney, and subsequently having the three days spent in Sydney.
Alyssa cutting her cake at home - when I was in Sydney
Anyway on the next weekend Alyssa had a party at the local park with some of her friends from school, where we had a BBQ and games were played with the kids. On the agenda was such games as egg and spoon, sack races and balloon races all the “ol fashioned” games. A good time was had by all and no broken bones at the end of it. Lynsey did manage to fall into the river.
Egg and Spoon race
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