Comments on: The fruits of our labour

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:45:42 +0000

I’m back from hols and checking out your zillion posts! Wow – reading this post makes me very tired, but also very excited for you! Perfect philosophy too – baby steps. It’s awesome to see you turning the land around to good use. Damn that gorse hey! I used to do a lot of volunteer work for Manawa Karioi, Island Bay [http://mk.3months.com/] – in ‘BC’ (Before Children) days and cutting back gorse was often a priority! When the girls are older I shall return… with them in tow! 🙂

By: Ruta M.

Ruta M. — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:07:17 +0000

Thanks for putting so many pictures on. It makes me feel that I'm right in your garden. How exciting to have such a big project to plan, though it will be a lot of hard work. Even when it is too wet too work outside there is all the fun of drawing plans and looking through plant catalogues for just the right varieties. As the winter weather confines me to the house I shall look forward to seeing your garden take shape. I've always kept my hens deep-bedded on wood shavings (free from local joiners), and when I clean out the shavings they go straight on as a mulch for my fruit bushes. I even designed both my gardens with the blackcurrants near the hens to save work. Hi Ruta, it is indeed exciting to see things come to fruition. There is no doubt that it can be overwhelming so I try not to worry too much about the big picture too much. Baby steps is the order of the day. I've been doing the same with the chicken house debris, or rather I've been saving it to go on the compost heap. The compost boxes are next for tackling on my next procrastination challenge!

By: Marrisa

Marrisa — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:41:33 +0000

Excellent! I love the way you have put your photos together, thats is something blogger doesnt offer!

As always, such a good post, you put me to shame in the gardening stakes! x