Spent most my free hours today looking up grants and possible sponsors for the school garden.
Finished the Wicking Bed for the strawberries. Added 2 self seeded Borage plants given the commonly held belief that they improve flavour/vigor of strawbs I cant verify that myself yet. Also transplanted the big patch of Sun Rose (succulent)back beside the Strawberries as they seemed to companion well, with the bees coming down to the sun rose flowers and then on to the strawb flowers. Transplanted a large Thai basil in the bed as the soil in its pot was never very good.
Unfortunately the strawberries were bearing decent size/shape strawberries for the first time this year before I dug them up, but I doubt that will continue given the shock.
Something to remember is that Strawberry flowers need to have lots of different sections of the flower all pollinated to get properly formed fruit. If you have munted looking strawberries that is likely to bee the cause :)
Strawberries Type/number
Red Gauntlet/8
Hokawase/2
Lowaruna/2
Alinta/1
Fragoo (pink flower)/2
Observation:
Turnip Rooted Parsley finally germinating. 3-4 weeks.
Harvesting this week:
The odd strawberry.
Lots of Comfrey and Kale for the chooks green food.
5 Eggs a day from the chooks
Sweet potato vine tips as a spinach substitute, and kale, watercress, Malabar Spinach and broad bean plant tips for salad.
With an hobby farm childhood followed by engineering background, Permaculture provides me much. It's about ecosystem management, mimicing nature (the master designer) and the optimisation of ins and outs. I am specialising in edible plants and intend to, amongst other things, create a seed and plant bank for WA. Along the way I will keep this site posted with news, photos, tips and learning material. Join me, we shall vacuum up knowledge, grow in ourselves and allow the world save itself.
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