Sorry, been a bit slack on #soilspondence.
Been flat tack prepping for winter around the place and doing autumn things like harvesting awesome mid-late season pears and apples and pulling spuds and root crops as needed.
Shout out to my supervisor Doom Kitty for keeping me going when the health and spoons aren't there.
Finished clearing a paddock with downed trees of gum and others after like 3 years.
Snuck in some furniture cobbling.
Stay vertical, be bee friendly , garden hard! #gardening
Some #soilspondence from a sunny day I mostly worked on firewood and slashed comfrey for orchard and compost feeding.
The bumbles were LOVING the flowering oregano. We've already cut 2 crops for drying so we are happy to have it flower for the apian allies. Be bee friendly!
Quince and pears putting on some size.
Crimson clover and friends in some #cottagecore rows of food, medicine and fodder for the bees and the people.
Stay vertical. Garden hard!
Supplimentary #soilspondence
A late summer round of fruit underway and trained to climbing and support string, and some autumn and winter starts emerging.
Garden hard!
The place has been under seige of late. Head of Security Doom Kitty [not pictured today] and I were up most of the night hunting. Managed a wee nap then pushed to get out in the cooler mostly overcast day for many field chores.
Please enjoy some colour and greenery from the rounds as we enjoyed the chorus our apian allies.
Garden hard!
Today's #soilspondence doing some tidy up and planting in the main greenhouse.
Horticulture supervisor Doom Kitty advised me of all the tomato side shoots needing trimmed.
Got a full rack of trays seeded with cutting salads and herbs and other things for autumn and winter garden.
Name that leaf?
Figs!
Garden hard.
When we have tiny garlic that probably won't make useful size cloves/bulbs we just go ahead and plonk them somewhere nothing else is going on, or even in some pots because you might still get something usable and/or left to carry on they will do this. Before they open up (scapes) can be sauted or pickled and the flowers are tasty in salads and sammies, insect ally friendly, and a rather dashing splash of bonus colour to boot.
Garden hard!
Didn't get much sleep last night. Greenhouse temp got down to around 5. Outside was waffling around 2! Flashbacks to some of last years 6 summer frosts that wiped out heaps and set us back so much. Not today happily.
Orchards and young field crops fine and was another sunny day pushing 40 in greenhouse. Wild.
Enjoy some early raspberries under and around figs in the greenhouse before things like tomatoes and cucumbers dominate the airspace.
Garden hard!
From my rounds of the grounds yesterday. I wouldn't call it sage advice but I do advise sage even if in a pot in a small space. For serious even green varieties have many health and of course culinary uses, are bee friendly and I reckon handsome as! Being an awesome perenial I've lost track, probably over 100 transplants started from seed around are the place and have made lovely rows and clusters amongst other crops and trees.
Garden hard!
Oh my I just can't with the feed today. Maybe you can't either. Here have a rustic bouquet. Heaps of our marginal spaces or spots that should or could never be food are becoming increasingly and perpetually bathed in flowers and herbs of all manner. For our pollinator allies, and don't ruin my goth cred here but yeah some splashes of colour for the humans too.
Garden hard!
Sun was mostly out so just wore goggles and headphones and 'ignored' the gale winds. Nice thing about the most recent bouts of gales is there is no longer a dodgy 3 phase power aerial, on dodgy t-bars on old poles to get damaged as the underground mains line we dug and dug for months ago has been live for a while now. phew
Human: lemme just grab this wheelburrow
Doom Kitty: I'm workin here!
garden hard!
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