Dear Diary 10th July

Permabee yesterday: got most of the pruning and the digging-up-and-repotting done. YAY!

WEATHER

Saturday was sunshine. Today is pretty much on and off rain. Temps have been down to 3-4C and up to 18C during the day. We've had a few days of heavy rain, and this morning our locality hit the annual rainfall record this morning at 8:30am. That's how wet a year it is. It's our wettest year on record.

CHOOKS

The chooks have been through the northern side of the garden: the triangle orchard and the frangipani flower meadow. They got a brief full yard free-range this morning before it began raining. After that, I nudged them back to the

PRUNING & PREPARING

A video on Fig Pruning suggested cutting back the already-fruited wood each year, since that wood won't fruit again, and if the goal is to get fruit, then cutting it back each year will keep the tree manageable in size. Something to remember.

I need to dig out some of the chook yard, and lay the mulch around the fruit trees that we just transplanted to pots: LYCHEE, KUMQUAT, ACEROLA CHERRY.

PLANTING

PERPETUAL SPINACH all around the PLUM-STONE bed, some SILVERBEET in the PLUM-STONE to join the kale and cavolo nero.

LETTUCE between the rows of garlic in the CARPORT VEGEPOD: two rows of 'mixed lettuce', one of 'aggro woman' (or some such lettuce), one of the forellenschluss. Also, four SILVERBEET.

SILVERBEET in the lower step bed, a sprinkling of ROCKET on the left side.

RIPENING & GROWING

The potatoes from the Pumpkin&Potato patch are sprouting, the oats have straight green stalks, everything else is a little bit random.

TWO-STONE is flowering, DUAL STONE has been pruned down to reachable levels and requires a little more trimming and neatening to prepare for netting this year.

HARVEST

Picked the KUMQUATS before we moved the tree, need to remember to eat them!

NOTES

Now that the picket fence bed is cleared, I need to think about what's going to happen in that space, taking a moment to consider that it does need some visibility for cars coming and going, and that that area is very wet in rainy weather, and probably quite dry in drought.

ROMANESCO BROCCOLI planted back in May didn't make it. Probably not enough sun. Or too much? Or the soil was the wrong type? IDK. He didn't make it any larger and ended up dead.

Also, the only thing that survived in the LOWER STEP BED was the Valiant GARLIC. None of the Monaro made it, IDK why.