| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| medburygardens |
Posted - 18/02/2009 : 03:41:14
Not off to "big smoke" today,so big day in garden,
8 05 am,kids off down the road to school bus
8 10 put load of washing on
8 20 drive down to river for load of shingle
9 00 start mixing cement for another block in the path
10 00 harvest more parsnip seed(done weekly)
10 30 start harvesting red onion seed,and have it laid out in the shed,area dug over ,composted and planted in wheat by 3 35 by the time kids arrive off the bus.
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| The Estate |
Posted - 03/03/2009 : 13:20:26
 WOW good stuffs 
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
Melbourne |
| medburygardens |
Posted - 03/03/2009 : 13:15:24
Its not to hard on the back M A,how its done is we cut an arm full, walk to the trailer and pull the seed off by hand.At $150 per kg it worked out that yesterdays crop is worth $1500,6 hours to harvest,20 hours planting and weeding.It works out well because there`s no middle men,the seed goes from me to be dressed,then in to packets to be sold. |
| Mary-Anne |
Posted - 03/03/2009 : 06:58:18
How wonderful to get help from your Dad Richard..
Looks like back breaking work to me 
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
| The Estate |
Posted - 03/03/2009 : 06:51:57
Yay sounds great all round Richard 
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
Melbourne |
| medburygardens |
Posted - 03/03/2009 : 02:41:17
Todays mission, plant a new bed of strawberries, plant garlic where the old strawberries where,finsh chopping down a raspberry to be removed to be and replaced with Marionberry and if i have time, weed the blueberry row ready for mulching.  |
| pitta |
Posted - 02/03/2009 : 17:54:56
A very good arrangement all round , everyone's content ,what more could you ask.
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
Gwen
Cooktown |
| medburygardens |
Posted - 02/03/2009 : 17:04:37
Check out that link Di,they are nice eating when they are small.
Jackie works full time,i`m at home with the kids which is great because once they are on the bus i can go and do various things,one,i blade shear sheep on lifestyle blocks, two i`m working with a industrial designer in Christchurch redesigning the tools of my trade,and three yes i do get payed for the seed i grow for Heritage Farms as well as being a minor share holder.Jackie works three kms away on a farm and is home when the kids hop off the bus.So it works well
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| Di Taylor |
Posted - 02/03/2009 : 16:03:19
What is mangel seed?
A good year is when more things get harvested than die! |
| The Estate |
Posted - 02/03/2009 : 15:16:04
Well done, onya R's Dad , can I ask Richard do you harvest and grow seed as a form of income or you have a reg job like I do 
10 kilos that is a lot of seed
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
Melbourne |
| medburygardens |
Posted - 02/03/2009 : 15:13:31
Todays gardening mission was to havest mangel seed,my father come up and gave me a hand which helped me to have this job done in six hours and ten kgs of seed later.This seed will be sent to the North Island to a company called Heritage farms who sell there seed in garden centers mainly in the North Island.
http://www.seedsofchange.com/garden_center/product_details.asp?item_no=PS10620
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| The Estate |
Posted - 25/02/2009 : 06:33:50
Open fires are very romantic with a nice bottle of bubbly
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
Melbourne |
| Mary-Anne |
Posted - 24/02/2009 : 19:53:18
You only need six hours with out rain for it too work Pamela
I used to help Tony split it Richard after he cut it into 45cm log size pieces with the chainsaw I have not done it for three years now as I tore the rotator cuff in my right shoulder carrying a 20lt bucket of water and its still not right. And good on you for cutting those trees down too.
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
| medburygardens |
Posted - 24/02/2009 : 17:05:22
Pamela last photo you posted it was so dry,now you have heaps of grass growth,its the same here also,amazing how it can change in a few weeks.
M A do you actually like cutting fire wood,i dont but its got be done to keep the family warm,at least i`m doing my bit for the environment by cutting down these trees |
| Pamela |
Posted - 24/02/2009 : 13:57:19
Oh yes there are MA. It was blue skies everywhere until an hour ago and it is going to pour soon. Very tropical here at the moment and the grass is taking off like a rocket which is GREAT as the horses have something to eat on my hill and I look out n ow to mostly green in the home paddock as it is all joining up which will be GREAT as it might mean not so much mud next time it rains.
I have a new chemical granule that will kill eucylyptus regrowth and gum trees up to 3 metres as well as wattles if you sprinkle before it rains around the root zone - I am just off to do that minus Sammie the "have to be in everything you do" friend.
Little chick went off to his/her new home today. Alice the duck is a duck not a drake (thankfully) and she is growing black wings - she has black kyuga genes along with welsh harlequin. I hope she will be all black. She has black feet. Love the baby quacks and as she was raised by Spic (or Spec, the hen) she quacks all the time like chooks must make sounds all the time, but maybe you don't hear them as much. Sam tried chasing them all today - oh dear it is a long slow learning curve.
"The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears." |
| The Estate |
Posted - 24/02/2009 : 09:46:29
 meant that message for Pamela 
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
Melbourne |
