It’s spring! Our first in the garden (because by the time we got started
last year it was virtually summer). Come down and have a look, we love
having visitors.
We’ve made heaps of progress in the last 10 months, thanks to many
wonderful people who have contributed in all sorts of ways. It’s hugely encouraging to see just how much can be done when we all get together as
a community.
The latest big news is that we now have water! This is thanks to the
incredible generosity of Greg Inglis of Inglis Plumbing, who has been
absolutely wonderful in his support of the garden. Not only has he
connected up the water, but in the early days he helped us immeasurably
by bringing a dozen tip-truck loads of NEGS stable manure over to the
garden so that we could get going with building our first planting beds.
The peach trees and nectarine seem to be settling into their new home,
they are all putting out new buds. We’ve ended up planting a dozen
assorted fruit trees this winter, and also a bay tree.
Seedlings are going in, and many more will follow once the danger of
frosts is past. We have already prepared over 30 raised mounds for
pumpkins, melons, cucumbers and zucchini but we’ll have to keep on
making lots more garden beds over the next month or so if we’re to have
a hope of fitting in all the plants we’d like to grow. In next to no
time that huge space is going to start feeling too small!
There are a heap of things to do, hopefully as the weather gets warmer
the garden will be buzzing with activity and enthusiasm. We really must
get on with setting up a shady sand-pit area for kids before the weather
gets too hot, and constructing our huge bean tepee, setting up bigger
worm farms, planting, bed-building, mulching………
Does anyone have access to free sheep, cow or chicken manure? We are
making compost as fast as we can, but we are going to need lots of
manure as well so that we can keep on improving and enriching our soil. Please email Garden@slarmidale.org if you can help out!
cheers
Jo
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