Redheads in the house!

D was determined he was going to have chickens, and chickens he would have... as soon as K left the city for a short break, three other women entered his life.

Butter (is best of course)(top), Tikka and Korma - invariably known as Tweedledee / Tweedledum, or the Ugly Stepsisters - have joined The Farm to add to the environmental (re)cycle.

Garden growth...

Plumbing and pipes and dirt, oh my!

Jay slaved away digging the trenches, in the mud, in the clay, in the rain - with some blood, sweat and probably blisters - and created the best pipe trenches our plumber Ben had ever seen! This was no small feat as he encountered broken tiles throughout, random pipes that stopped and started and weren't part of the working system. Such good preparation meant Ben could hook into replacing the old pipes with the new, including the extension to the new rubble pit, and have it all done and dusted in a few hours. Of course, there's still hours more work for Drew and Jay, with many wheelbarrows of gravel and dirt in their future.

Vege Patch v2.0

Well, this is it... the beginning of our second vege patch, the winter crop. We've got:

VEGES: red onion, white onion, asparagus, spinach, cos lettuce, beetroot, leek, silverbeet, tomatoes (cherry, roma, egg), broccoli

HERBS & COMPANIONS: marigolds, aloe vera, oregano, nasturtium, sage, pyrethrum, lavender, sunflowers, basil, thyme, chili, catnip, mint, parsley, coriander, dill

Pipe dreams...

Jay needs some new toolboxes - great for us, because we need some hard manual labour digging trenches in preparation for the re-plumbing! He put in some back-breaking hours and we're lucky to have him (wanting some cashola!). There's some crazy pipe criss-crossing - even Super Mario would be scratching his head, huh?

The vege patch begins anew!

It's taken a while to get back to it, but we've learnt a lot in the interim, so it'll be interesting to see how successful we are this time. We've done more soil prep, know more about companion planting and not to sow everything in neat rows, what should be next to other plants (or not) and so on. We're also planting to the seasonal guide instead of just what we wanted (and happened to be on sale regardless of the right season!). Looking forward to some yummy results!

The farm begins... Bottom Terrace