Well the glorious weather continued well into May and proved to be one of the hottest years on record. We enjoyed prolific harvests, including far more of our own yummy feijoas this year - although they grow so well in our area that the neighbours had always been able to satisfy our needs while our own plants were growing.
And autumn has always been a time for me to attack another area of bramble and gorse and so I started with a small section at the top of Brambly Bank that had been overlooked last time.
Before ....
mmmm.... don't seem to have any after photos!! But I did then move onto the area of brambles behind the compost heaps. Some kanuka plants were regenerating rather nicely in front of the heaps ...
... but behind was rather a mess. Fortunately Dave seemed very keen to clear this area and so he helped me - I cut all the canes down and he followed behind and dug up all the roots (and cleared away my cuttings and burnt them).
By the end of May, the potatoes were growing rather nicely in the pumpkin patch but we were a bit worried about the possibility of frost and so we made some frost covers. These proved a mixed blessing as they caused endless discussions about whether to put the covers out each night and then in the mornings, they were soaking wet and we had nowhere to dry them out.
Alice came to visit at kumara time and helped us collect this year's supply. Again we had rather a lot of rather little ones but we have learnt that even marked and damaged ones store OK.
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