This long weekend we attempted to catch up on time we lost last week due to very hot weather. Saturday was still reasonably hot, but Sunday was lovely and cool, and we made a big chunk of progress on our latest garden upgrade: fixing the roof on the orchard. Our “orchard” consists of four espalierContinue reading “Orchard upgrade: WIP”
Category Archives: Garden
Chicken coop upgrade
I mentioned briefly in my last post that Stephen had been working inside the chicken coop on the weekend, building a new garden bed. You might wonder what on earth we were trying to do! Anyone who keeps chickens will know that garden beds are an irresistible source of entertainment for animals that Love. To.Continue reading “Chicken coop upgrade”
Going to seed
We have been working in the garden this weekend, despite it being exhaustingly humid, and pretty damn hot. We really wanted to put up a new cover on the orchard, since the existing cover has holes in it, punched through by enthusiastic Peach and Plum watershoots. We got as far as putting up a newContinue reading “Going to seed”
Native Frangipani seeds
Last night at dusk we found a lovely white egg in the chicken coop, right where Matilda had been huddling moments before. I quickly got in there before the chooks had time to investigate because we thought it might have a soft shell. It was just hardening up! What a wonderful surprise in the evening.Continue reading “Native Frangipani seeds”
Some new girls for our flock
We have been running with two chooks in our hen-house since last summer. Raven (a pure-bred Australorp) has been the boss of the house, but she has only had Harriet (our Barnevelder hen you can see in the background of that shot above) to keep in place. Now we have introduced two new young hensContinue reading “Some new girls for our flock”
Simple Crafty Life 