14 October 2009

Dreadful weather had been forecast, lots of wet, heavy at times and thunder later, but we hoped they had got it wrong as it started out OK.....

And we were very lucky when we went to a local nursery to buy a couple of trees and some flax and toe toe as we found that some enormous overgrown plants of both the last two were on special, so we decided to forget about the trees and fill the car up with the grasses. They looked so enormous in the shop (and the car) but somehow, when we got them to our new section, they did not seem so impressive.

Anyway, planting them was a job for the afternoon, first we had to install the new polythene catchment for our pond. This all went smoothly and was to be severely tested later on...
As you can see, mark II was to be shorter, fatter and hopefully stronger...

Then we added a final few flaxes to our vegie patch shelterbelt - 93 in total now, having come from 4 parent plants. Pretty good eh!

And then the rain came!!! By far the hardest we have experienced up there, and we both got completely soaked. Note to self, should put on waterproof clothes and boots as soon as the rain starts!

Anyway, we pressed on with planting the 16 new potentially enormous flaxes and toe toes, heartened by the fact that we would not need to water them. And we made it just about, but by then the weather was too bad to record our efforts for posterity. Watch this space.