OBSERVATIONS:
GOLDEN PEACH has finished flowering, NECTARINE, and DUAL STONE are in full flower.
GOLDEN DORSETT is flowering.
PLUM on (former) FOUR STONE is budding.
MARIPOSA on (former) DUAL PLUM is budding
CHOOKS:
Several chooks are sneezing, dammit. That's kind of worrying.
Got several chooks laying – getting 3-5 eggs a day now. We're starting to work out whose eggs are whose: some are known – the dainty little cream eggs are Goongbao,
COMPOST:
I made a compost, it wasn't heating up fast enough – the only part that was heating up properly was the woodchips that I piled on top. I turned it to try to mix it all in, and added woodchip shavings, and now there are mites and flies all through it. ARGH.
I'm worried that the woodchip shavings that I picked up from someone local had mites in them, and this has just spurred everything on.
PREPARING:
Where Tomatoes are going to go: compost, then chicken manure (for early seedlings to give the boost), then dolomite lime and potash. Lime needs to go in early before planting tomatoes. Anthony planted out buk choy.
SEEDING:
PLANTING OUT:
HARVEST:
FEEDING:
Some instructions about dealing with brassicas
potash - at growing heads
nitrogen - to get them started
4 wks - sulphate of ammonia (blood and bone) for better structure
PRUNING and GRAFTING
Got a heap of scions for grafting – cherry and Apricot
Apricot: cotton candy, bulida
Cherry: minnie royal, royal crimson, royal lee
I wanted the Plum: gulf gold, ruby god, but they were already in flower so it was too late for tem.
- grafted new cherries onto cherry after trimming it DOWN
- grafted new apricots:
- one to frontyard FENCELINE APRICOT
This is the CHERRY:
I took
It's a Stella variety which did really well the first year I put it in but hasn't really supplied since. Let's see how the grafts take.
THOUGHTS:
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