Awoke to massive piles of icy hail across the place , 43.5 mm within the rain gauge for the previous 24 hours and extra rain,hail and wind on the best way I headed to the polyhouse to get issues completed.Usually in winter polyhouse there are every day harvests of greens for us and the chooks. Our flock require a big basket stuffed with greens to be blended into their mash every day and the skin gardens by no means develop quick sufficient in winter to maintain up.
This yr has been fairly totally different as I used to be out of motion from Spring to Autumn with firstly with a damaged leg (Due to neighbours goat, which remains to be managing to climb the fence to my vegies backyard.) Then a brand new knee! Over this time the polyhouse grew to become lined in lovegrass whose seeds latch on to your garments and was proberly answerable for the invention of Velcro. To take away this weed required me to put on a polyester kind bee swimsuit,and lengthy gumboots and nonetheless some seeds ended up on my socks.As soon as eliminated the beds the place dug over to take away invading roots , the soil had mineralized , which implies whenever you push the spade in you hear a crunching sound just like placing a spade into gravel or the grittiness of potting soil or when compost has been left too lengthy.
It was now late Could and getting too late to plant most issues even in facet.
The 2 centre beds had a few of my humus wealthy compost dug in and the place planted with introduced in brassicas seedings and lettuce,kale and silver beet seedlings from my backyard. The surface beds the place left dug over and watered to get the weeds to germinate and at present I dug them in as a inexperienced manure after which stirred some biodynamic barrel compost and handled all of the beds. Subsequent week I’ll dig in some humus wealthy compost and do one other stirring of barrel compost and will probably be prepared for spring planting and a few biodynamic 500 to get an early begin for the summer season vegies.