Simple Crafty Life

Walking through the garden yesterday morning, there are a lot of new crops coming along, and a couple of problems to deal with:

Broccoli seedlings from our own seed!

A healthy borage seedling

A mix of seedlings in the greenhouse: tomato and broccoli, I think.

Lucerne looks very different to other seedlings

Bok Choy coming along nicely

Baby silverbeet

New apples forming on our ballerina apple trees. Huh? Yay!

The Tahitian limes are doing very nicely

We get stink bugs in our Citrus, especially the Orange

Comfrey is growing under our citrus and ballerina apple trees. We periodically slash this and use for fertiliser.

Leaves are curling on the Orange tree, probably due to Citrus Leaf Miner.

Foliage from the Queensland Arrowroot. These are growing outside the chicken coop. The ones inside are thoroughly pecked.

Anyone know the name of this bush? Lovely native with very sweet flowers. Just like Snugglepot and Cuddlepie!

What kind of fungus is this? Funky!

A line of silly chookies

Matilda is preparing to dirt bathe in the orchard

We shall have to do something about the citrus: the Orange tree needs immediate attention, I think. Then there is also this guy:

Goanna prowling

Somewhat frightened …

… and confused

… and a little lost

Still trying to find a way out

This goanna sometimes visits our chicken coop looking for eggs. I haven’t seen him since we put the new orchard walls up — I was hoping he wouldn’t find a way in now. Obviously he can still get into the area, but he has a harder time getting out!

He got pretty thoroughly confused inside the coop (as usual) but eventually found the open door. I had already evacuated the chickens from the area, so they were safe off eating borage seedlings on our driveway (cheeky chooks!). This time I had to open the gate at the top of the orchard to let him go on up the driveway and away from me and my scary broom. Then I herded our chooks back into their enclosure. Phew!

I think the wooden fence line in the orchard might need work at ground level where there are some gaps big enough for the goanna to sneak in. He only finds the gaps when he isn’t panicking!

And he hasn’t found our eggs. 🙂