Ngairin vege garden 09

This lil fella is the reason why we are building a netted garden.....cute but ruthless eating machine!
The poles for the garden between our houses go in
These are local ironbarks and are cemented in for extra stability
view of garden from driveway
looking out my back door...little building on right is the soon to be moved useless composting toilet....I'll document the new one soon....
Posts at the corner are locked in with big stones...that's Michelle helping out in the little citrus orchard...next to vege patch
Sam starts wiring in at the top
He used gripples to secure the wires
Wiring everywhere
Sam was pedantic about the wiring.....which has been very successful for the netting process
Criss cross wiring that will hold up the commercial grade netting

securing a bottom galvanised wire net to keep out the big bods
Netting goes up...sold in 20 mtr width with as long as you want length
halfway thru the netting
nearly finished
finished at last
Now beds can be made and fertiliser goes on....dolomite, manure, potash and blood & bone
first green babies....celery, leeks, mizuna, brocolie and silverbeet Mid July 09
Tanja helped plant some parsley from her garden....beetroot and potatoes
Kathleen waters them in
My big gate....two big gates at other end for trailer delivery
What to do with baling twine .....
Outside the garden from my end back to the other house
Big bench on one post...sink to go up on back one...

down comes a tree at Ngairin

Using a tractor and pallet and ladder to scale the tree...note power lines...but they were far out of reach really! Loz is holding Sam up on a safety rope...she's a bloody 'ledge'
Loz is a team worker extraordinaire - handing Sam the gear to attach a cable to the tree
Sam up the bloody tree attaching a big loop of cable to help bring the tree down in the right place..ie not in the dam!
Andrew hands the cable to Sam to attach to the back of the tractor
Charlie starts the wedge cut at the front of the tree
cutting the wedge at the front attentively watched by budding sawguy Andrew. Charlie is down the dam embankment....stupid place for a tree really.
Charlie slices through the back of it
Andrew gives Sam the signal to move the tractor and cable a little....
I moved away and shot this....I was a bit scared....

The tree is down...sad but now we have light and no roots in the vege garden...and it will be apart of a house one day...

me and bubbles

Me and the dog bubbles just before we left the tathra house

milo Loves the fact that he has to stay inside!

What we do on the lagoon a lot

Bubbles loves my new bed.....

Big roo handprint at the beach

big boy roo

a wallaby this is the main culprit for eating our gardens

Looking out my back door through vege patch to other cottage

corner posts stumped on large rocks.....very very stable

the net is on

lifting it over the top

masking the wire at top to make it easier to lift wire

sam wiring the big top....well thats what it looked like anyway

big turpentine gum posts are cemented in

the lagoon at dusk

outside the dairy

inside the dairy -kitchen and backdoor

Moving on....to paradise

Heya...

Well I've been off for a while...sorry about that....life love and the universe got in the way a bit....but on track now. I have had to leave that little house and little paradise in the backyard at Tathra and am now situated about 20ks north on about a 100 acres of pastures and national park, lagoon and beach in a tiny weeny little (its small ok!) house. I love it...having to peel back and really look at what is necessary and what is a space filler! The animals all came with me but not the garden :(
Because there has yet to be built a place for a garden to survive the biodiversity out here....ie: roos, wallabies, possums & birds galore...not to mention a rat or two but thats right up the cats alley....
The vege cage is being constructed and the plants will soon go in...Yay! I have been hanging to get in there! I will put some progression pics up soon , promise...go well. Kx

More pics of my place April 08

The bananas are doing well at the bottom of the slope in this yard. I swaled the vege garden so all water eventually stops at the banana garden. I also grew sweet potatoes, silverbeet, parsley and tomatoes under the them.
The chook yard is almost invisible under the pumpkin vines.
It doesn't take long for healthy plants to take over.
This is the begining of the summer crop of tomatoes and pumpkins in the chook yard extension.
Before I added the extension of the chook yard

Well I've been flat out getting the permie business(http://www.lusciouslandscapes.com/) off the ground and have had little time to get on the blog. But I realised that I need to show you how the garden is growing....Amazing how time flies when your having fun.

The Chook yard was over run with tomatoes and pumpkins during the summer months and I now have the chooks back in there for the Autumn breakdown. Some sad news about the cute and fluffy one (Remy). Lost him to a tick in October...very sad and the garden is so quiet without him.

Just entering a new phase of my permie business with bigger better paying work coming in with the influx of city escapees buying into our little farming community and wanting to do the 'right thing' by applying sustainable principles to the land.

If you are thinking of entering into business with your own permaculture ideas I urge all of you to do your homework, market research and business plan before launching yourself out there. It really pays off to know where and how you stand when entering into a small business activity. There are small business workshops and support networks in most regional towns and cities. And if you can apply for a NEIS grant, go for it. Every little bit helps.

http://www.workplace.gov.au/workplace/Programmes/NEIS/

Kathleen's Tassie trip

I've scored some work here at this place for a little while. Tasmania is stunningly beautiful to me...so many green, green fields and water overflowing in the dams. It is a bit cold though...really their spring was like our winter! It is very anglicised with most gardens being full of european things...but the wild bits are just fantastic. I urge you all to get over here for a holiday...Feb/March is the nicest weather....K


View from the balcony at Mulannah Morning on the Mersey River Devonport
Kathleen composting with Jay jay
The woofers bit within the barn
The nursery
Mulannah House