dear diary: 20th Feb

A small change in programming. I'm going to be posting to this with a lot of 'diary entries': things that are going on in the garden. i'm a lot faster typing than I am writing, so hopefully will get more down. The main problem is that text is very rigid and I don't have a lot of space for scribbling 'notes in margins'.

May have to use the comments for that.

CHOOKS

Tractor moved onto PLUMSTONE bed on Thursday, leafy greens stripped within two days.

Goongbao is broody again. She's in the cage of shame.

Automatic door is playing up again.

Shantung is laying but not every day, 2 out of 3.

PRUNING & PREPARING

CHERRY TREE: hard prune. I feel like I should prune it way down to stumps so that new growth sprouts up.

DUAL PLUM, 4APPLE: still needs to be done.

4 STONE, DONUT PEACH, DUAL PEACH: will need another hard prune come midwinter.

APRICOTAVO bed: planted out Clucker Tucker in eastern half (western half still has beans) for when chook tractor goes on

GARLIC: 3 cloves in seaweed solution to get roots (plant out somewhere accessible for green shootage - BACK WICKING perhaps?)

ELDERBERRY: dug it up from front picket bed. Decide what goes there - APPLE or BLACK SAPOTE?

Sieved some compost: about 6 forkfuls before exhausting

PLANTING

STRAWBERRY: runners in water waiting to be planted out into their own pots

SHALLOTS: planted roots into BABYPOD1, hoping for green shootage.

RIPENING & POLLINATING

TOMATOES: large cherry, and large lobed-types, orange ovals in LOWER BED

PUMPKINS: chook corner pumpkin is producing itty bitty fruit but they're not pollinating

PUMPKINS: Sugar baby under apples is producing a couple of fruit, pollinating okay.

HARVEST

POTATOES: plant has died off in washing line planter - dig out potatoes (if any)

BASIL: a couple of plants still going

APPLES: golden delicious not going golden just yet, Gala all picked

NOTES

Missing: 20 ANEMONE Mistral ( bordeaux, magenta, rosso sfumato, tigre) - [Tesselaar]

Also missing: 25 RANUNCULUS mixed [Tesselaar]

SWEET POTATO: peg down (Katerina's advice) particularly where roots