The harvest begins!

The harvest begins! Apples apples everywhere, tomatoes and peas! The Apple trees have gone really well this year, we have been here three years and in that time only one of the three trees has given us anything worthwhile- the other trees have just produced shrivelled up little things! But this year all three are going absolutely nuts! With the most delicious varieties! I think one is a cox's orange- my favourite. Our Tomatoes haven't been so good but are starting to pick up and bring in some decent numbers. And already, after a week and a half my new vegie patch is springing to life! It is a no dig patch that I started after I got so frustrated with all the weeds in my patch- and the very very poor quality soil that is there. so after wads and wads of newspaper laid out on the soil, and lots of water I layered cow poo and straw, and cow poo and straw and mushroom compost up and up till it was about half a metre high, then with very regular watering it all broke down into one lovely nutritious patch! I have planted out the 'Anti-Oxidents Patch' which is from the book One Magic Square by Lolo Houbein, this is a magnificent book! I couldn't recommend it more! It contains many designs for vegie patches that are only one metre square in size. For example there is the winter stir fry plot, the soup plot, the salad plot- it is amazing! It also contains planting times for nearly all the vegies and fruit you can imagine, and descriptions of these to help you decide! I love it! GO and GET it now! (its for temperate climates by the way!) So here are some piccies of my apple harvest, the trees and my patch, close up you can see thousands of little mustard seedlings (I tend to over sow, as I always think they will all just die- but these haven't yet!)

Its been a while!

Hi all! A little hello cause its been a while! I have been off having a lovely time in the summer sun shine of Tasmania (yes we got some!) and haven't been inside much to be getting crafty! I will start putting up updates on my new no dig, one magic square veggie patch which I have been working on- I sowed many seeds and because it has been so lovely and warm and rainy down here the have germinated- in only 4 days! Yippee!! we are on our way to more sustainable living! I was saying to my partner that all I need is a cow, some chickens and a sheep, then I'll be right, I will have milk, eggs and wool for felting....oh if I could! Our wallaby has headed off to its next home, he is now in a big orchard a bit south of us, apparently he has been chatting up the ladies in the evenings- so we are very proud! Here are some pictures of our grown up one- look back to a previous video- Introducing Micah Asha Harris-d'Arville to get some idea of how he has grown! He is bashing us up in some of these- don't worry- it is love! We are proud of his fighting skills, he will be able to tell them whats what in the wild! Go Micah!