gardens update
Basic vegetables going well…
Starting to clean up flower garden which has been over grown with jerusalem Artchokes, Comfrey and other rampant growths.
And the first ’round’ goes in at the north end with a meyer lemon. The idea is to develop crop circles 
cage stage 1
This is stage 1 of building the cage for growing vegetables in a hostile environment. It is designed to be free of wallabies, bower birds and possums all of which strip growth very quickly.
It is in a property near narrowneck, on the edge of the cliffs, and in open sun and wind on a sloping area facing north west. The trees generally don’t grow very here due to wind.
It is made with hardwood eucalypt and meshed galv wire and then bird mesh on top of that.
The mesh is open enough to allow pollinators through.
The ground area is to be built up with added soil and lucerne.
gardens update – pre work scoping etc
These shots were taken in February 2011 before i started doing any work. I took them to help in thinking about what might be done in the longer and shorter term to clean up and to make interesting…
gardens update
Experimental planting and growing is going well. This is during a 40 degree heat wave…
Mizuna, Lettuce, Silver beet, rocket, Red Beets, some italian Kale, bush beans [green and butter], chervil, sweet basil, origano.
gardens – first work
Started work on the vegetable ‘soup garden’ area The garden wedges were weeded and turned over to about 30cm deep and covered with Lucerne to about 15cm.
lotus
An excellent specimen of Lotus - Nelumbo nucifera - growing at the Auckland NZ botanic gardens. A very white variation that was almost up to 2 meters above the water line. The water was only about 60 cms deep.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelumbo_nucifera
