So the first day we had intensive drinking lessons and the second we moved onto eating food out of a bowl. Then we advanced to green stuff and worms. A few of them had the instinct to try and catch a worm wriggling in front of them but didn't have the dexterity to grab it in their beaks or the ability to swallow it. Anyway, after a few days, they got the swing of things and after a few more days, started to lay some eggs. They also had to be persuaded to lay their eggs in the nest boxes and to sleep in their shelter rather than on it.
Elsewhere, Dave had a rather large bonfire to farewell our brambles as well as other prunings from many of the neighbours ...
... and it was very hot!
We harvested our pumpkins, a mixture of my special dark green skinned Austrian oil seed pumpkins and some self seeded plants from last years standard grey skinned pumpkins. It was clear that they could pollinate each other as we had pumpkins of every shade in between. But it was avery good crop and should see us through the winter and some.
We also had some help with the kumara harvest, from both Alice and Little Black. Kumara were a bit of an experiment for us and we had 3 varieties, orange, pink skinned and pink fleshed.
Many hands made light work ...
... although the paws did not make all that much diffference!
Anyway, soon we had a respectable harvest, with a few large kumara and lots of very small ones. Ah well, ready made chips.
The vege patch was doing well, with the first beds planted up for the winter rotations ...
... the greenhouse was cleared and just had strawberries and lettuces growing ...
... and the native plant nursery was thriving with the plants more than ready for their new homes.
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