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Spring to Summer

Let’s welcome Summer! But first, let’s remember Springtime, 2014. 🙂

Spring Garden Gallery

Spring is here! The garden is starting to wake up. 🙂

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”

Winter garden gallery

Winter is closing in at last, and the cold weather has arrived. All the animals are doing very well, especially Cricket who is growing like crazy and looks like a proper hen! Here is a selection of photos I took yesterday morning, as I did my morning rounds.

Chicken coop maintenance

This last week has been so warm, it was classed as a heat-wave. Which feels very odd indeed, as we are just about to leave Autumn behind us for Winter! Yesterday was beautifully sunny and warm, but not hot: perfect for some chicken coop maintenance. Every now and then (and I don’t really keep track ofContinue reading “Chicken coop maintenance”

Autumn in the garden

Today was an amazingly warm autumn day – a big change from the very cold weather we had over the Easter weekend! The little chicks are growing up fast. Cricket is now saying “bok bok” a lot more than “cheep cheep”, and charlotte is growing a rather lovely hen’s tail. I’m feeling a little reservedContinue reading “Autumn in the garden”

Autumn garden: random bits

We’ve had a fair bit of rain over the last few days, and some of our recent plantings have started to shoot up! Here’s a pictorial update, and some random extras thrown in. 🙂

Rotating some crops

With my youngest daughter in preschool today — for the first time ever! — I found myself with a bunch of quiet time at home. It’s amazing what garden sounds you can suddenly hear when there is total peace and quiet in the house! I wandered through the garden taking some photographs and doing aContinue reading “Rotating some crops”

Autumn garden gallery

It has been very wet here over the weekend, with a last hurrah for summer. I think we may have received much of our rainfall for all three months in that last weekend! Well, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but it was wet, wet, wet. And cold! I feel like Autumn snuck in aContinue reading “Autumn garden gallery”

Morning walk in the garden

Walking through the garden yesterday morning, there are a lot of new crops coming along, and a couple of problems to deal with: We shall have to do something about the citrus: the Orange tree needs immediate attention, I think. Then there is also this guy: This goanna sometimes visits our chicken coop looking forContinue reading “Morning walk in the garden”