MyGardenPal Blog

Over the last 2 weeks we have not had a drop of rain but Marty continued with planting trees.  The average temp was 35 Celsius which required us to water the new trees every day.  Finally we are back to our usual daily rain showers which takes care of our newly planted trees for us.

Coffee Tree

Left is a coffee plant which was really important to get in first so we can keep up our energy with a good ‘ol home brew asap!  This was planted on top of a Swale because it doesn’t like wet feet.  Most of the land we are planting into is clay.

Clay

You can see what we are up against in the photo of the clay.  Using Mother Nature in the right way we will be able to over come these obstacles.  When we plant anything we mix into the soil a handful of worm castings mixed with manure, then place another handful of the mixture on the top to keep the plant feed for a while.  Then cover it all in Lucien.

Yummy Bananas

Marty has also planted a banana circle or 2.

With all the rain you can now see evidence of the system starting to w

ork.  We have swales collecting water, trees and plants thriving and sprouts from all the seeds we sowed coming to life in as little time as a month.  We did however, have a hand from Marty’s sisters that decided they wanted a holiday with us but little did they know they were then put to use everyday slaving away with Marty and me planting sweet potato, lemon grass, various seeds were sown and Lucien spread everywhere.  I think they had to go home to have a real holiday.

We have action on the swales

Swales being useful

Just a last sad note, we had another chicken taken from us last night by another python that consequentially has taken a trip to Cunungra for a long vacation.  RIP little chicky.