It has been very busy. I have been setting up the garden, From this blank canvas, we have planted 14 fruit trees, and put in 5 garden beds (more are in the making) set up the potato area. I still have lots of grass to kill off but the rain just wont go away.
I have also started the plants for the garden off in seedlings. The pots I make up from this website. I make them up every year (although every year I have to go hunting for a link on how to make them, ha ha). And thanks to Dee finding on ebay for me I have lovely little green houses for them to start in.
| Beets | Baby |
| Cabbage | Cabeza red |
| Cabbage | Golden Acre |
| Capsicum | California Wonder |
| Capsicum | Giant Bell |
| Capsicum | Golden Calwonder |
| Capsicum | Golden Calwonder |
| Chilli | Hungarian Hot wax |
| Chilli | Jalapeno |
| Eggplant | Black Beauty |
| Leek | carentan2 |
| Lettuce | Lolla Rossa |
| Lettuce | Marvel of 4 seasons |
| Lettuce | Salad Bowl Green |
| Lettuce | Salad Bowl Red |
| Lettuce | Gwenda White |
| Lettuce | Salad Bowl Green |
| Lettuce | Salad Bowl Red |
| Lettuce | Great Lakes |
| Lettuce | Lollo Rossa |
| Lettuce | Marvel of 4 seasons |
| Melon | Haled Best |
| Passion Fruit | Black |
| Rocket | Perenial |
| Rocket | |
| Silver Beet | Colour Mix |
| Silver Beet | Colour Mix |
| Tomatillo | Purple |
| Tomato | Cherry Fox |
| Tomato | Roma |
| Tomato | Roma San Marzano |
| Tomato | Roma San Marzano |
| Tomato | Cherry Camp Joy |
| Tomato | Cherry Pear Yellow |
| Tomato | Cherry Pear Yellow |
| Tomato | Green Zebra |
| Tomato | St Pierre |
| Tomato | Grosse Lisse |
| Tomato | Green Zebra |
| Tomato | Black Krim |
| Tomato | Cherry Red Pear |
| Tomato | Black Russian |
| Watermelon | Sugarbaby |
| Watermelon | Moon & stars |
| potatoes | Colliban |
| potatoes | desiree |
| potatoes | pontiac |
| potatoes | Sebago |
| Bean | Bush Provider |
| Bean | Bush Roc D'or |
| Bean | Bush Strike |
| Bean | Climbing Blue Lake |
| Bean | Climbing Purple King |
| Corn | sweet Terrific F1 |
| Cucumber | Burpless F1 |
| pea | early Grop Massey |
| Pea | Purple Podded |
| Pea Snow | oregon Dwarf |
| peas | Greenfeast |
its gonna be tasty. anything listed exactly the same twice is because the seeds are in 2 batches on from this year and some old seed I had.
Ok so thats the Gardening, onto sheep. we had lots of lambs this year, from 5 ewes we got 10 lambs (yes 5 sets of twins) and not one coloured but i wasnt really expecting any. We lost on to a fox and one to the cold and one is a little bit hmmmmm shall we say royal.
Honesty's Babies, Fred and Wilma, They are B/L x Corridale. Fred died when he got out of the night pen and got to cold
Purity's Babies, Stitch and Lilo (boy and Girl), They are B/L x Corridale.
Then Chastity had Betty and Veronica, B/L x Merino
Then came Hope's babies, Lady and Tramp (Girl and Boy) which are pur B/L (Border Leicester) Hope has also been a bit of a legend as she has picked up feeding and caring for one of Chastity's girls as well. Chastity is only dealing with one.
And last but not least is Patience's boys, Archie and Jughead who are pure Border Leicester's as well. Unfortunately Archie got taken by a fox the first night and Jughead is a bit well special as you can see.
We have all done the shearing or rather I should say my friend (and Dee's Hubby) Paul did it for us. We also managed to set up the shed as well.
This is the legendary Paul with Tinkerbell!
And just to finish off I also turned 40! I got spoilt a bit, I got all my fruit trees, a stack of Amish books, a champagne glass (just for me), some preserving equipment (for all the fruit and veggies that I will have) and an incubator so I can grow lots of chickens for eating - yum. Im sure that will fill up more posts lol. Well I think that is it. Next month i must update my knitting lol
