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Friday, January 31, 2014
Let the Harvest begin
Yummy! |
The Cook has decided I should concerntrate on about four differnet veg just to get the whole process right before I branch out into other stuff.
It's pretty dry at the moment, not much rain to mention, but hopefully February will bring something!
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
This is not what you need on a Monday |
I did notice one of my wheels passed me as I was trying to control the beast, also thought that this was not going to end well. I finbally managed to pull the vehicle up off the road, 500m from where I hit teh wombat, I don't kow what the truck and dog loaded with 20tons of gravel that was right behind me thought - but he never slowed down.
I need to go back to the spot and have a look around - maybe I'm being drawn to that spot by some kind of force that wants me to see something????
I then spent 6.5hrs awaiting a tow truck due to an adminsitrative error with my road side service, it was only 36 degs, nothing to get hot under the collar about. It wasn't wasted - I did help a cuple change teh tyre on their trailer and they lent me thier phone to call the cook :)
I'm not sure why this came off, cold be something to do withthe wombat strike, somebody took it off and didbn;t put it back on propery during repairs, somebody trying to steal the tyre (brand new) I don;t know. All I do know is that I'm in for another round with the insurance company from hell - QBE.
Friday, January 10, 2014
Getting a harvest
We've had a really good start with the garden this year, a great crop of garlic was harvested just before Christmas and we have a pile of onions we harvested at New Years.
We've still heaps in the garden, beans, beets, cabbage, corn and a mix of various tomatoes, chillies, capsicum, kale, squash, pumpkins, eggplants and okra. Probably other stuff but I've forgotten what else is there. I'm putting in greens and lettuces this weekend in the vacant beds.
The only failure in the veg department has been my potatoes, they've ended up with some fungal disease (blight) that has destroyed the whole crop.
I planted a few trees in late winter early spring as well. So far I've been really happy with my Cider Apple trees, but the Chestnuts have been a disaster. I've now lost half of the trees I planted and I'm not really sure why yet. I know a couple got knocked by the hot winds, but some just didn't go form the outset. I've also planted a hazel nut hedge which thankfully is going well so far having only lost one bush.
We've had a few snake drama's this summer. Although we have a few of those sonic snake repellers we have had a huge brown snake causing problems around the place. Flicka our white labrador was killed the other day and Little Pig as bitten and died just after Christmas. I've since been chasing the snake from hiding spot to hiding spot - his days are numbered.
we have a new batch of Plymouth Rock Pullets growing up in the yard and soon they'll have a nicely renovated chicken coup to live in. Our Guinea Fowl are somewhere sitting on eggs, this should be interesting, they're a bit loud at 5am in the morning - I cant imagine what the noise will be like with a dozen or more of them.
Like Queensland we are starting to get a little dry, the river is getting low and there is not much chance of rain in the near future. If you haven't seen it yet BOM have a new heat wave warning map - we are forecast for our first next week.
freshly harvested garlic |
enough onions to make anybody cry |
The only failure in the veg department has been my potatoes, they've ended up with some fungal disease (blight) that has destroyed the whole crop.
I planted a few trees in late winter early spring as well. So far I've been really happy with my Cider Apple trees, but the Chestnuts have been a disaster. I've now lost half of the trees I planted and I'm not really sure why yet. I know a couple got knocked by the hot winds, but some just didn't go form the outset. I've also planted a hazel nut hedge which thankfully is going well so far having only lost one bush.
It looks messy but the weeds and clover help keep the soil moist and confuses pests |
we have a new batch of Plymouth Rock Pullets growing up in the yard and soon they'll have a nicely renovated chicken coup to live in. Our Guinea Fowl are somewhere sitting on eggs, this should be interesting, they're a bit loud at 5am in the morning - I cant imagine what the noise will be like with a dozen or more of them.
Like Queensland we are starting to get a little dry, the river is getting low and there is not much chance of rain in the near future. If you haven't seen it yet BOM have a new heat wave warning map - we are forecast for our first next week.
Friday, November 15, 2013
They're here!
Thursday, October 3, 2013
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