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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Back to Basics Week 2

I think I am a bit tardy in posting week 2 but here goes anyway.

Sowing and Planting:

Sowing
  • tomatoes- lots of varieties
  • chillies- paprika, tepin, habanero, jalapeno, black pearl, tabasco, siam
  • capsicum
  • eggplant- rosita, udumalapet, Thai green, black bounty
  • rosella
  • tomatillo
  • globe artichokes

Planting

  • 3 silver birch trees
  • 2 black currants
  • 1 thornless blackberry
  • 1 raspberry- Digger's gold
  • 1 blueberry-O'Neil
  • 1 jostaberry
  • 10 heritage apple trees- Beauty of Bath, Bramley's Seedling, Improved Foxwhelp, Sugar Loaf Pippin, Pomme de Neige' Irish Peach, Geeveston Fanny, Lord Lambourne, Worcester Permain, Keswick Codlin

Harvesting:

Broccoli, asparagus, snow peas,herbs, cauliflower, lettuce, flowers.

Planning for the future:

Organising our holiday. Planning accommodation and pet and livestock care.

Working for the future:

  • weeded the orchard
  • mowing
  • bought paint for house exterior (when the weather is fine again)

New Skill:

Patience when navigating the confusing world of booking holiday accommodation.

Tracy

1 comment:

Linda said...

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Enjoy your house paint!