Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Work, weeds and working bee's.


I have to admit that it's been tough getting back into the swing of things since returning from India. I feel like we have been chasing our tails a bit, and perhaps lost a bit of energy around the property. But it's good to recognise this and evaluate the situation.

First, we still have a few financial glitches which should be worked out soon. The gyprock should be ordered by the end of next week and will be installed in a couple of weeks.

My mother is moving to the Mountains from Mudgee which we are all looking forward to, but this is going to take a bit of work and timing, both which takes energy away from the project.

I did a half day workshop on Permaculture Design with Victoria Walker a few weekends ago, which was interesting and gave me some food for thought.

We have a few largish bushes of Blackberry which have emerged right before our very eyes. So I asked a few locals how they deal with Blackberry who recommended the easiest way is to spray the whole bush with a herbicide called Grazon. I've always been told that it's better to cut and paste Blackberry so I was a little reluctant to spray.  A gardening guru and very generous friend of mine Mat offered to come and do the job - yippee!!!!!

On the weekend we had planned to have a little camping party with some mutual friends which has now turned into a Sunday working bee. We will do weeds, collect manure, rocks and timber for about two hours. This should equal about 12 hours work!

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