Planted 40 Silver Birch and 10 Japanese Maples along the top boundary and 40 Liquidambars along the east/south boundary. They all got a handful of organic fertilizer. The ground was teaming with worms. Lovely chocolate soil everywhere. Put a Pin Oak on the north/west boundary near the entrance.
Got some trees for my birthday (thankyou Sharon) [...]
Entries from March 2008
Tree Planting
March 31, 2008
Tree Purchase
March 27, 2008
Bought 171 plants from the Woodlea Tubestock Nursery for the boundary.
40 Betula Alba (Silver Birch)
10 Acer Palmatum (Japanese Maple)
1 Quercus Palustris (Pin Oak)
40 Nothofagus Cunninghammii (Tasmanian Myrtle Beech)
40 Liquidambar Styraciflua (Sweet Gum)
40 Acacia Melanoxylon (Blackwood)
March 2008 - Pests & Weeds
March 25, 2008
Blackberry - mainly along western boundary and in ornamental garden around the house. Dug some out, brushcut and mulched over.
Thistle - mainly in bottom paddock and popping up in small numbers in top paddocks. Slashed and brushcut. Will uproot it in top paddocks.
Stickyweed - ornamental gardens full of it. Pulled most of it out.
Nightshade - [...]
Compost 2008
March 24, 2008
Built a three bay compost system using hay bales. It’ not quite an engineering masterpiece, it’s all a bit wonky but I’m sure it’ll make good compost. It’ll probably just be the lazy gardeners cover and leave for a year system but if I’m feeling very energetic one day I’ll turn it.
Bay 1: started Feb 08
inputs; kitchen scraps, camelid [...]
