Another dry week here at the creek....
but at least we have been getting back into all the jobs after a lull in activities over Christmas and New Year – but its hard to work in the heat, so we're trying to get out in the early morning to get heavier jobs done – and again after the evening meal to do emergency watering and such
This week also marked the time Rusty heads off to rejoin the herd. He's been a lovely boy – but he's getting rather big now.... and it took quite a bit of coaxing (and a fair amount of muscle) to get him into the back of the ute .....
I was even called on to lend a hand!.....
Farewell Rusty (actually he's just heading over to FP's farm next door – can you see the itty-bitty house in the distance of this pic? Well that's his destination). He'll spend a bit of time in a small paddock over there and then take his place amongst the vealers that are currently being hand fed. I'm going to share some piccies of FP and the kidlins hand-feeding the beef herd – maybe next installment....
to do
plant out pink day lily bulb (a gift from an arty friend who dropped in – isn't that sweet!)
sow more lettuce and beetroot seeds
order herb and sprout seeds (oops still not done)
replenish vege garden bed with more compost, aged cow manure and such
completed
fallen fruit cleared in the orchard (thanks Sass and EJ)
vege garden weeded
spent italian cabbage plants removed
seeds sown: climbing princess, cherokee wax & french flat beans,
seedlings transplanted: thai eggplant, 'tasty' lettuce, artemsia (in the white garden and bottom decorative border), pink buddleia
worm farm moved to front verandah (not before the current collection of worms got fried in the heat.... hmmmm that means also on the 'to do' list is get more composting worms)
I've been preserving yet more peaches – and the start of the nectarines – this time I've been making jars and jars of nectarine jam and 'gingerly peach' chutney (its yummo)
picking/ eating
red cos lettuce, raspberries, yellow peaches, rondo de nice zucchini, spring onions, early yellow nectarines, ivory eggplant, pontiac potatoes (we are bandicooting some before needing to lift the whole crop) and a weirdo self-seeded cross between a rondo de nice zuc and early wonder cuc (W*E*I*R*D!)
