It’s hot today. Currently, it “feels like” 34 degrees Celsius, which is about 93 Fahrenheit — not impossibly hot, but it’s quite uncomfortable if you are a chicken! Especially if you are a chicken who has decided to raise a nest of little chicks! These two (Harriet and Cricket) are both broody at the same time. ThatContinue reading “Broodies and berries”
Category Archives: Garden
Preparing for Potatoes
Early in October, we pulled out our garden tools and set to work in our garden, preparing the potato growing bed. Every year we plant our potatoes in a new patch — to avoid nematodes and viruses that attack the potato family — and this year we are using our crescent shaped terrace bed. BitContinue reading “Preparing for Potatoes”
Orchard netting complete!
Remember back when we upgraded the walls of our orchard with a new solid wire wall? Our plan at the time was to secure the top of the orchard with some netting, stretched over hoops. → It’s done! ← We’ve had the netting since we put up the hoops, but we stalled at the time becauseContinue reading “Orchard netting complete!”
Local Spring Flora
Hello all! Yesterday I took my neighbour’s dog for a walk, as they have gone away for a couple of days. A few steps past my driveway I started to notice that a huge array of native flora is out and blooming. And some non-natives, too. 🙂 Here’s a glimpse at what my neighbourhood isContinue reading “Local Spring Flora”
Spring Garden Gallery
Spring is here! The garden is starting to wake up. 🙂
Digging in the green manure
“Digging in the green manure” is not nearly as gross as it sounds. For one thing, there’s no poop involved! On Fathers’ Day we came home from ten pin bowling to discover a brief moment of sunshine, and two sleeping children in the back of the car. Hello, opportunity! So, I took half a momentContinue reading “Digging in the green manure”
Weeds get forked
The other day we experienced a respite from the endless rain, at which point I noticed our garlic patch had become rather overgrown with weeds: Garlic (and other alliums) don’t really like having competition, so I decided to take advantage of the brief sunshine and nip those weeds out. Usually when I do this task,Continue reading “Weeds get forked”
Big. Wet. Garden.
The other day I mentioned that we built our raised garden beds to counteract the periodic flooding we experience. Well, here is a good example! This water will sit here for about a week, slowly dissipating (if it stops raining, that is!). If we had put our vegetables directly into the ground, here, we wouldContinue reading “Big. Wet. Garden.”
Birds in the bush
Despite the dry weather recently, we have had a remarkable amount of wildlife visiting our garden in recent months. Our most frequent and obvious visitor is a Brush Turkey who comes over our neighbour’s fence, into our orchard: Here he is, hiding at the back of the orchard, where I chased him for a photo.Continue reading “Birds in the bush”
The winter garden
I have been taking photographs and composing blog posts in my head, but somehow, not making it to my keyboard to actually type these things up! Bad blogger, no biscuit for you! So, here’s a bunch of garden pictures from mid winter to mildly amuse you. A little background to these shots — it hasContinue reading “The winter garden”
Simple Crafty Life 