Tag: Sustainability
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Nearly a home.
We’re so close to owning our own home, having done all that the bank wanted, checking all the boxes and jumped through all the hoops. So, it’s time to restart all the kitchen fermentation and get some edible plants into the ground. We started with four deciduous fruit trees, an apple and a pear, and…
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Bugs love Chinese cabbage too!
In my straw bale bed the bugs love the chinese cabbage (i think its Wongbok) but leave the lettuce, silver beet and kale alone. Months later…I’ve found that the bugs generally like European vegetables over Asian. I know this contradicts the post above, but it’s all a learning experience
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Planting time is family time.
The family planting trees. 4 deciduous fruit trees that should provide us. In addition to fruit, they will shade the front of the house from the western sun that blasts it in summer. I used tree guards around their bases. These keep water where it is needed and allow it to move down to the…
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Planting.
Planting deciduous fruit trees before spring really gets here. An apple, dwarf almond and dwarf nectarine. Do you think I can find a dwarf pear tree anywhere local for love or money? That’s my son, Marlon, digging and me watering.
