I've sat down several times over the last fews days to blog, but each time I can't find the inspiration. I've been feeling a bit overwhelmed/depressed over world events of late. So much so that I have decided to stop trying to write about it for now. Instead I'll just update you on the more mundane things I've been filling the hours with...
Preparing the garden for spring continues. I put in half a dozen raspberry canes the other day and also have 5 well established black-currant plants in. Hopefully I'll get enough fruit from them for some jam making by summers end. Compost making is gong well too. Last weekend I had the use of a large mulching machine for a day. I feed the prunings from the plum, pear, and prune trees through it as well as a variety of other greenery from around the property. I now have a 4-tier home-made compost bin full to the top with quality compost - a mixture of mulch and donkey dung. You can never have too much compost :)
My worm farm is going well too. The worms seem to be increasing in numbers nicely and they've produced about 40 litres of ready to use liquid organic fertiliser. I'm running out of bottles to put it in! I've tested this stuff on my indoor plants already and they love it. It really is "rocket-fuel for plants". Apparently it sells for about $6 a litre in gardening shops (if they stock it at all), so I'm saving a lot of money too.
I've planted a couple of feijoa trees down on the river bank. We had a big feijoa tree next to the house I grew up in and it was a prolific producer of fruit. We always had more feijoas than the family could possibly eat but I never get sick of them. It will be a year or two before I get any fruit off these but they are a good investment for the future.
The weather is starting to warm up now and I'm thinking about what spring/summer vegetable seeds to plant first, and how to keep the black-birds and frost off them!
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