Well these don't look too brilliant but we have to take them before the skin goes too black (don't know what this is). Anyway they ripen nicely fairly quickly and I enjoyed them with my fish dish last night though Malcolm didn't fancy it. The birds sometime get under the netting and have to be chased out. They are selling for $8 a kilo at the local organic shop so we are delighted to have them to eat.
Today we spent ages in the garden as the weather was once again quite beautiful, calm, warm and sunny. I took out the pepinos which neither of us likes (anyone fancy a plant?) and prepared the bed for two cranberries, one more prostrate than the other. I also tested the soil for pH everywhere and found that it is fairly neutral. It varies between 6.7 near the blueberries which are sittng in pine needles to 7.2 and not much more. The soil certainly doesn't need liming if the meter is accurate.
Malcolm started pruning the feijoas next the vege garden and this will hopefully will let in some more sun. We also filled the new tub with the comfrey leaves which have been sitting for ages in a bucket of water and stinking to high heaven. My son in law Bryan drilled a hole in the side of the tub and now we have a wonderful tap. So I could water the garden with comfrey water.
We also have our worm farm back, which is super. We put it with our own mickey mouse tyre set up and that means it is full. I used the worm water, well diluted I might say to feed the citrus, which are also looking great. These had some chicken manure earlier and the mandarins, oranges, lemons, are all going to be great. Not sure the kumquats will be too marvellous.
Pruning is about to take place. A friend from the Tree Crops Association will come next Wednesday to give us a demo of pruning figs, feijoas and hopefully almonds. We hope to get a lot done before we go to Australia on 13 July, where I have to talk to various meetings on complementary currencies and money systems generally.
We also have an automatic timer on the tap so that we can water regularly in the glasshouse now. Already the mustard which I have planted there ( with the contents of many bokashi buckets underneath in one section) is looking healthier. Not sure about the structure of the glasshouse...
There will be so much mulching to do when the pruning starts in earnest. That will test the mulcher. And there is more compost to make.
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