Jovial Monk wrote on Mar 29^th, 2018 at 5:22pm:

Great idea and the chooks will have the best time won't they

Jovial Monk wrote on Mar 30^th, 2018 at 12:03pm:

Just put it all in a wood chipper Monk and point it in the general direction - save those shoulders from hard work 

I went back to the Launceston Farmers Market last Saturday: bit of a drive but worth it! A craft brewery had a stall.

What was interesting was that they had a saison flavored with Kentish cherries: the saison had very little color because the Kentish are a white fleshed cherry. I have a Kentish Sour cherry tree being looked after for me in Launceston!

Also a Napoleon cherry, also white fleshed. This is an eating cherry not a preserving kind like the Kentish Sour.

Todays cherries are large, brown—and offer sweetness but not much flavor. Also bloody expensive!

Knocked off a bit early today, totally knackered!

One row of four cider apple tree mounds tomorrow then the 6m mound for the cherry trees. Whatever compost is left will get shoved somewhere or other. Then that is it for this trip. On the ferry back home Sunday night.

Enjoyed the stay. And a lot of satisfaction in a shitload of useful work done.

Got photos, you wude person you!

Did some talking to the local yokels.

Most things I can grow in Adelaide I can grow there, not the real  frost tender stuff, of course. Flowers and veg. Doubt I can grow a banana tree there, but can only grow the one I have in Adelaide by having it right by the north–facing verandah, no frost there!

Great for winter veg like kale and brussels sprouts, should be able to grow good lettuce and celery in shady spots in summer. Besides the apple, pear and cherry trees, of course. And chooks!

There were houses with solar panels—one had 42 panels—not as many as in Adelaide tho. But days were still long and good for solar power when I left and for winter I will have one or two wind generators. With a big gas bottle and woodfired pizza/bread oven may be possible to be off–grid, dunno.

No cellar tho: rock about 1 metre down  Would have been nice, root cellar, place to store preserves and for cider etc to mature. Alas, not to be! But I can excavate and seal a reasonably deep space under the house to do some of that.

Can excavate rock, but $$$

And I can order more trees, 4 cider apple and 2 cherry in under an hour.

6 dwarf cherry trees, YUM!

Jovial Monk wrote on Apr 12^th, 2018 at 5:15pm:


Nasty 'wude person.'