7th October 2009

It had been so cold and wet, with horrendous southerlies for the last few days, that we nearly decided not to go to our new section this week. But again, as last week, the weather got better the closer we got and by the time we arrived it was beautifully sunny if still rather chilly. And there was snow on the nearby hills - amazing for this time of year!!

We had plenty to do - first, a man came about putting in a drive. Yay, now that would be progress.

Then we marked out the circle that should become our permaculture-based veggie patch and started to plant an outer border.


(note the snow in the background)

We are using some more refugee flax plants for the border and hope they will provide shelter from the wind as well as being a barrier to keep out the kikuyu grass and other unwanted plants.

This week we brought up 4 plants and managed to divide them into 71 new plants. Amazing! They were quite overgrown and tatty but they looked really healthy once they had been split up, cut back and all the old leaves removed.



And finally Dave cut the grass that been under the slippy slide where we were collecting water. Unfortunately the plastic has been damaged in the sun and needs to be replaced. I am not certain under which Health and Safety requirements our trusty old lawn mower falls, but I dont think it complies!!