A lot has happened in the 16 months or so since the last post, and by a lot, I really mean our son Avery 🙂 Funny how working full time, running a business on the side and raising two kids leaves so much time to update a blog isn’t it. Our daily routine starts at […]
Garden
Our garden experiments and improvements.
Front yard tidy up begins
Ok, so we’re finally getting around to fixing up the front yard. After marking it out on Saturday arvo, we got up early on Sunday and got stuck in. I got the chainsaw out and lopped off two huge limbs on the big tree, much to Ashy’s horror. It was a bit stupid, and kinda […]
Vegi Patch Replanted
After pretty much lying dormant over winter, the vegi beds got a new lease of life yesterday. After taking Midas for a walk we went to Magic Garden Supplies at the bottom of the hill and bought some dirt. Can’t really say enough about how nice they are there. Free trailer hire, always go out […]
Congo Potato
Here are the congo potatoes I harvesed today, they are very dark, almost metalic purple on the outside and wen you cook them the inside turns a light purple colour. Taste pretty much like reguar potatoes.
New Chicken House Plan
This is the new plan for our chicken ouse, we’e decided against a transportable coop and gone with a permanent one instead. It’s going to be 2m long by 1.5m wide, should be enough space for about 10 chickens.
Triffid Zucchini
Look at my Megga Zucchini! I’ve been harvesting baby ones for the last couple of weeks, these two were hiding around the other side of the plant. The are both over 30m long!
Vegi Patch
The vegi patch is goin great guns at the moment. We’ve harvested our first lettuce and peas this week which was very satisfting, we need to harvest a whole lot more before the beds pay for themselves, so far each lettuce harvested cost approx $200 and each pea $50. There are a few mysery plants […]
Vegi Patch
It’s finally done and dusted!!!! The retic is finished, the soil is in and the first batch of seedlings are planted! I was a little disappointed that the tomatoes didn’t fruit over night, now I’ve just got to be patient.