When the vets left last night, Holly’s teat canal was able to be opened and was functional when open (well functional in that there were now two holes instead of one which will most likely be permanent). Talk about dedicated individuals – they were here fro nearly two hours and it was well after 8pm […]
Continue reading about Jersey Journal: traumatic second week Pt2.
All my hard work in the garden over the last few months is certainly paying off now – everything is growing well and I am starting to harvest some lettuce, snow peas, sugar snap peas, kale, silverbeet, potatoes and beetroot. The first lot of tomatoes are in and growing well and I have just planted […]
The growcover is doing a reasonable job of protecting the vegies, although there are a few holes being munched in the cauli’s and brocolli’s and the two carrots that survived the chook attack, are no longer. The bitter disgusting kale is growing prolifically, lucky the chooks like it as none of us do! Nearly all […]
Spring is finally here, the days are warming and the vegie garden is progressing, although slowly as we are still having frosts every night. In an attempt to get a headstart with some seedlings, I have started some seeds in a makeshift coldframe – white polystyrene vegie boxes covered with clear plastic. The inside temperature […]
If we want to have any chance of providing all the vegetables for our family, expanding the vegetable garden is essential. I also found that the original bed that we made last year was too wide for me to access comfortably, so we pulled that down to make it narrower. All of the corrugated sheeting […]
Continue reading about June 2011 – Expanding the vegetable garden
I’m actually having to trawl back through old photos to record the progress of the vegie garden. This was the garden area before we moved in back in 2009. September 2010, with the chook pen fenced and gated and the first raised garden bed put in and growing a green manure crop of barley. The bed […]
Part of the process of increasing our self sufficiency is growing our own fruit and vegetables, and part of that is having a compost bin. We do things ‘big’ in the country, so this is the one I have made using star pickets, plastic half pallets and cable ties. The idea behind the plastic pallets […]