Stop The World...
I want to catch up...after a very busy week!
Scarecrow's Log: 22:03:2009:
Temperatures this week:
Lowest Min 2.9C
Highest Max 32.9C
No Recorded Rainfall
Thursday's Garden Group Visit
During this last week we have had two groups of garden minded folk visit our garden. All were impressed by the Wicking Worm Beds.
With a Saturday market in between the visits we have been very busy but as a result I have sold most of my excess seedlings.
Thank you to all who visited it was a pleasure to show you around our productive garden.
Planting:
Two lots of seeds from Edens with their catalogue descriptions:
Onion Ailsa Craig...
"Huge round mild tasting bulb, straw yellow coloured sometimes near 1kg, sweet Spanish type, long keeper, perfect for exhibition."
Garden Sorrel (Rumex acetosa)
"Perennial. Leaves used for making soup and flavouring salads, or cooked as a vegetable. Said to contain vitamin C and copper. Sow autumn and spring."
I've potted on the Cabbage - 'Purple Flowered Choy' and 'Red Choi' seedlings that were up and ready.
Spotted in the Garden This week:
This tiny "moth" sized bird. (Anyone know it's name?)
A nest of Preying Mantis eggs on the Cherry tree.
Weekly Harvest Tally:
Doesn't include Greens fed to the chooks or herbs picked for use in the kitchen for cooking or tea making.
Cucumber Lemon***128g
Tomato Tigerella***53g
Zucchini Costata Romanesco***2364g
Zucchini Black***342g
No fruit weighed this week just further grazing on Grapes and Red Fuji Apples.
Plus a yummy mix of greens for salads...Kale, Lettuce, Watercress, Lebanese Watercress, Chives, Parsley, Gotu Kola.
Plus 14 Eggs from the girls.
All this along with trying to fathom out a new computer system...and the arrival of 5 new study modules in the mail.
I do really need to catch up with life!
Please remember Earth Hour this coming weekend...turn off your lights for 1 hour!
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5 comments:
Is it a Mallee Emu Wren? My Birds of Australia way this would be about 8 cm body and tail. The male has a bluish front, the female plain tawny colour. They are specific only to South Australia and the Vic border. Like spinifex and Tea tree to live in. It's rare, endangered. There's a similar one the Southern Emu Wren ( up to 12 cm) habitat the coastal regions and Tassie but that's a redder colour and bigger.
Hi Scarecrow...you must have been really busy! Been looking forward to your entry every day haha!
Hi SM
Yes I have really been that busy. :)
Thanks Cosmic but this one doesn't seem to have a 'wren' type of tail...I'm thinking more in the Pardalotidae Family and the Brown Thornbill is looking close.
These birds are very tiny and quite difficult to see as they dart around in the foliage. The second photo on that page in the link looks very close.
Or it could be an Inland Thornbill which seems more likely given our location.
Or maybe a Striated Thornbill but the more I look the more confused I become...I may have to ask locally.
Maybe I can just called it a Thornbill ;)
I'm not sure what I'd do with 14 eggs in a week! Do you manage to use them all?
Hi Matron
14 is a manageable amount for us there have been times when they have laid many more each week.
When we have an excess we often boil them up and chop them to put into Luckydog's dinner. She loves them raw but we don't feed her too many that way.
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