Mid Winter

Belinda is busy at her PDC so Andrew here. It has been good weekend for me. I gave the house a reasonable clean from end to end. Made great strides into organising my messy hobby room so you can now see the table surface and most things are in appropriate boxes or shelves.

Did edges on the gardens and bits of random weeding.

Last week Belinda and I refertilised the orchards. I pulled back the surrounding cooch grass with

the pick axe to about 1 m radius leaving bare earth. We scattered dynamic lifter, covered that in cardboard and covered cardboard in shreadded paper. Then we let it get rained on. I really should put more compost on top of the cardboard.

The spoil line and new bed next to the orchard to make use of the run off are going well. The spoil mound is getting thicker, turning into dirt and should be doing their job of holding nutrients around the orchard trees. Notably wetter there.

Our present process for weeding is that creeper grass goes into a

bucket that is allowed to fill with rain water and just sit for weeks.

Once the grass looks dead and drowned the hopefully nutrient rich tea is poured into one of the water barrels to be poured on the garden when it needs it. The drowned dead weeds are then thrown in the black compost bucket with dog poo and other things to be dumped at the spoil line below the trees. Part of the process of replacing grass with productive plants.

The sunflowers in the zone 3 bed went ok. That bed will be used again, it is fairly weed free and a favorite scratching place of the chookens and is being expanded for next summer with plastic to keep down the grass.

So got a lot done and had a fun weekend.