5th and 6th July 2009

Two visits this week - it seemed only fair that none of the family should miss out on the fun, so Sunday was Joanna's lucky day, and a chance for her to dig and plant and water.

She decided it would be appropriate to plant a tree for Michael, which was obviously the correct thing to do as the newspaper used to line the hole just happened to contain a large feature on his life and times. In fact the newspaper used on top under the mulch was a further item on our fallen hero as was the paper in the hole for the next tree and the next tree...




Anyway, with Joanna's help, we gained a row of cupressus leylandii which we hope will grow very rapidly to block out our view of the neighbour's house.

We popped back on Monday for a very helpful meeting with 'The Green Gardener' from the local council, who gave us some really exciting ideas for developing our fruit trees and vegie garden.

And we took the opportunity to plant the last few plants that were still waiting for their new homes. At the end of the day, we had run out of trees and run out of newspapers and run out of ties and run out of water.

But we have now planted 176 trees in total and we reckon they look pretty good.

Hopefully they will all grow big and strong, and not get too badly eaten by the rabbits and hares, while we are away for the next few weeks. Watch this space!