Every day is full at the moment - we are working towards so much. A lot of it is business - but we are also working towards being as sustainable as possible.Our top priority is to use as much of our back yard as possible to grow our own food, create a worm farm, caretake two compost heaps and look after a brood of chickens for eggs and organic manure.
I'll take pics of the garden tomorrow - sorry I didn't take any today. As it is now, we have two large vegie beds, one of which is fully fertilised, mulched and strawed and just awaiting seedlings - the other is new and needs to be built up. Justin retrieved an old massive fowl pen from a local produce/farm seller and he is setting about turning one bay of it into a spacey chicken coop and the other two bays will be a large cat cage to meet the requirements of new local Council laws.
We have mushrooms fungii now (not activated yet) and have a list of what we'd like to grow over the next 12 months. We'll be planting:
Onion
Cabbage
Spinach
Strawberries
Blueberries
Cauliflower
Broccoli
Carrots
Potatoes
Sweet potatoes
Celery
Tomatos
Capsicum
Corn
Rhubarb
Garlic
Leeks
Peas
Beans
Lettuce
Radishes
Cucumber
Zucchinis
Pumpkin
Asparagus
And there is sure to be more! I also want fruit trees, if I can fit them in - we already have a lovely plum tree, but I'd love an orange, an apple and a lemon tree. Some of these you can get in miniature - we'll have to investigate those...
This blog will follow our garden (so if you live in the Southern part of Australia and interested in doing your own/have your own vegie patch keep in touch!) over the coming 12 months - but it won't be the priority of the blog. The drive is still to keep you all informed of Retro Age - and to see what we're up to on the side. And there is so much we're up to!
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