Ducks and Tomatoes by Christmas!
We've had all sorts of problems with duck hatchings this year - I suspect partially because of the weather, it's been stinking hot and unbelievably dry in these parts. Finally we resorted to some duck eggs under a clucky chook, and even though the hatching rate has again been very minuscule, at least we've finally got some!
Given that it's been unbelievably dry it has been a big big struggle in the vegetable garden thus far. Despite that we're already eating some things, although I can't keep the moisture levels up enough to get seeds to germinate reliably.
The upside of all of this is the holy grail of my gardening life .. ripe tomatoes for Christmas!
Pigs and Geese - because
She's back... hatching more straw for goodness sake! Started off with 20 something of her own eggs - managed to kick them all around the yard, nothing hatched needless to say. Then moved onto a dozen assorted duck eggs. She managed to crack a couple of those eggs, then kicked them all over the place - that time he got involved, and here he is again - keeping her company and we all know this is a complete waste of time....
It's not all poultry around here
We have been sorting out the vegetable and fruit gardening again for another year, although we've had a very very dry, weird spring again. Stinking hot to cold fluctuations in temperature, have made it a bit of a lottery, without all the hassles of trying to maintain soil moisture. Still we keep building up infrastructure in raised beds and making more and more soil in the hopes that another 5 or so years we'll be a lot more weather resilient than we are now...
This is our new long, raised bed, flush up against the wind barrier at the back of the vegetable garden, there's still plenty of clear space between here and the next set of raised beds to be filled up eventually with more raised structures. This is now planted out with zucchinis, cucumbers, pumpkins, sunflowers, watermelons, bitter melons, rockmelons and assorted asian greens.
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