Its all go here on the pseudo farm. We have extended the chooks' home yet again. I think they have had a change about every 2 weeks. Now they can run right round the shed, and up the swamp--creek area. This means lots of lovely new digging areas of dirt and old compost heap. They seem to spend their days digging in a frenzy. We are stiil getting 3 or 4 eggs a day. Still, their diet is A1. As well as that, the potatoes in the no-dig gardens grow about 6cms a day. Amazing really. And the daikon radishes are up in the newest no dig bed. Apparently they have deep roots and they break up the ground. Also, the ice-cream bean seeds are up in the pot, and the Wampi now lives in the front garden.
We are in the process of exploring water tanks, 2 more, we hope.
We have more sweet corn growing, but the carrot seeds are not co-operating.
The grubs have had a lovely time in the cabbages--now the grasshoppers are winding down, the grubs have taken over.
We also had a big drama the other day when a very big black dog appeared in the garden, about 4 inches from my nose, despite the new gates,apparently it had come in under the house. Well, it turns out it is one of the 2 big dogs from next door and it LOVES the taste of chook. Apparently someone had let the dogs out from their 2 separate yards and they were having a lovely time roving. So we put them back and tied the gates up. Later Mick and Tammy from over the back visited, looking very worried. They had come home to find 2 dead chooks under their clothes line. Were they ours? No? Then , according to M and T they must belong to "him up the back" who is most unfriendly and has already taken M and T's dogs to the pound on another occasion, even though he lets his chooks roam free and the gets angry when they roam in M and T's "wood". So, you see, its all go.