The harvest begins!
The harvest begins! Apples apples everywhere, tom
atoes 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!)
The harvest begins! Apples apples everywhere, tom
atoes 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!)
2 comments:
Oh it looks wonderful!! I'm very jealous of your apples... we have three on our baby trees... Yummy though!
WOW your apple's look delicious!
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