With our big day with Costa coming up, there were plenty of jobs to do, especially in the area between our poles and the road. Our old herb bed was cleared and plants divided and bagged for replanting. The old lavenders were taken out. The compost heaps we made before Christmas were turned and combined […]
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Working Bee — 15 May, 2011
Autumn is many people’s favourite time of year around here and the weather was showcase standard for this month’s working bee.
Continue readingWorking Bee — 20 February, 2011
There was another great turnout for the first working bee of the year, and it was terrific to see so many children and young adults in the garden. We also had a visit from a Sunday School class who want to take up an allotment.
Continue readingWorking Bee — 12 December, 2010
After the November and December rains, the growth has been phenomenal. As always, the weeds are doing well, but the vegies are thriving. Being our last working bee for the year, and the first after the monumental effort of the Open Day, we did a fairly modest morning’s work. The first 4 rows of the […]
Continue readingWorking Bee — 17 October, 2010
We seem to have a knack of turning on great weather for our days in the garden. Saturday was freezing (8 degrees) raining and windy. Sunday was balmy and mild, the perfect day for a good spring clean. There were no huge projects on the schedule for today, just consolidation and getting ready for the […]
Continue readingWorking Bee — 18 July, 2010
Our fabulous tools were put to more good use today and a number of commercial beds were prepared and mulched, ready for new crops. Fraser was responsible for our Education Spot again this month, this time about how to make Lime Sulphur and Bordeaux spray mixes. You can read that full report here.
Continue readingWorking Bee — 20 June, 2010
Another gloriously sunny winter day greeted our eager bunch of SAGErs for our June working bee. A great amount of work was completed after a comprehensive demonstration by Fraser of the new cultivation tools recently purchased from Gundaroo Tiller. You can read a report of that demonstration here.
Continue readingWorking Bee — 16 May, 2010
These glorious autumn days are the perfect time to be gardening, and once again we had a great roll up of over 30, including a happy band of children. The main tasks for the day were to hand pull the 2 metre tall weeds known as “Apple of Peru” slash the green manure crop complete […]
Continue readingWorking Bee — 28 March, 2010
After the big rains we have very big weeds. One of the main on site weeds is a Solanaceae known as “apple of Peru” which must really like these conditions — some were over 2 metres high. It is reputed to repel white fly, so we should have banished all white fly from a large […]
Continue readingWorking Bee — 28 February, 2010
Another very successful working bee was held on the last Sunday in February with a great attendance. Despite the heat (37 degrees and sticky) a huge amount was achieved once again – a large proportion of irrigation pipe was laid, the roller door was hung on the lock-up side of the shed, fruit fly infested […]
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