New Red Bubble T shirts inspired by Chris and Alistair

Australian Wildlife Atlas

Just received and email from Organic Gardening Australia with a link to super new site to find out about all the wildlife (plants and animals) in your local area- Australian Wildlife Atlas. 
Give it a go!

Extra photos.

Alistair grafting. Giving it a go. An 'Opalescent' apple.

Once again having fun..Kye having to balance the world.

Men at work..Men of the Trees. This is the way you do it.

WORKING BEE SUNDAY 14th AUGUST 2011.

Having a good time..

Not another photo...

Well well well this is my beauty..what a broccolli..

Serious work, the best in the garden,,, composting.

The finished product, such a beautiful look, that the photographer was forced to come back and take a photo..

Canadian Cleopatra, surveying the reeds on the bank of the Nile..no actually, our top or bottom pond, as it is called, from whatever vantage point you are standing. She managed to whip the weeds into shape pronto.

Rested and refreshed, back from Bali and I'm ready to do some work.

I've sorted myself out and am now into a nodig garden. It may look like I'm working, it's all an illusion.

What a picture.

Many hands make light work. Alistair and Kye planting the apple tree.

Holding the apple tree.

Watering in the tree.

The support team, while Alistair and Kye dug a hole for the apple tree.

Working very very hard.. digging the hole for the apple tree.

I'm the king of the castle.. so, so happy....a job well done...

The next day, I made my granny Ros take me back to the garden, so I could talk to the apple tree, just like 'that man' told me too.

Cabbage, Christine and Alistair's plot.

Ros's plot. Carrots, garlic all in picture book rows.

Dianne's raised bed flourishing.

Cabbage, Jesse's plot.

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My apologies. Some of the photos, in the tree planting are out of sequence. Unfortunately Blogger is a b.....r to work with.

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published by marijka

JULY WORKING BEE

                                                          Rebecca's Salad Bar.

Having somehow forgotten to take photos of people working at the WORKING BEE here is a photojournalistic story of what we do at the garden  when we aren't working...Some may argue this is all we do..so long as our afternoons are spent in enjoyment and an occasional piece of lettuce or silverbeet is harvested we do well.

BUT trees were pruned, the ornamental grape was pruned, weeds were weeded and the area around the water tank magnificently improved, and silently with no fanfare people sat and kept on mosaicing the new NCG sign.  AND most importantly another pumpkin soup was cooked again.. eaten along with all the other delicious morsels provided by the gardeners. A bread baked by Diane comes to mind.

And then Alistair decided he couldn't live any longer without a fire (it being the heart of winter in Melbourne).  So we had a fire and then of course the fire needs somthing to be cooked on it..  sausages..

 Ros ladling out the soup.

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Eating pumpkin soup.

Ros and Rebecca checking out the newest varieties of tomatoes for summer.

 

Marijka's pumpkins and Small Leafed Clematis.
Clematis microphylla.

Our lemon tree thanks to, Ros and Chris, who lovingly and painstakingly kept on talking to it, discussing about it and feeding it, has now after many years of trying, produced succulent lemons.  Thanks Ros and Chris.

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Serious discussion at the bottom of the garden.

Shelley in her perfct red hat.

Elizabeth and Christine sharing a joke.

Elizabeth enjoying herself.

Well I think this big... Diane

Ian about to play the  guitar.and sing.

Alistair  in a serious mood after having accomplished a fire at the garden..feeling very pleased with himself.

The fire.

The sausage sizzle.
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Ready for the sausages in the smoke  haze.

A man in a tall hat eating his sausage.

And the Happy Wanderer doing its thing.
Hardenbergia violacea.

Photos, marijka

Posted by marijka. All information correct as of posting..:-)

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June 2011 Working Bee...and Pauline's Special Dumplings!!

We had a lovely sunny working bee on Sunday and it was extra special because Pauline made her famous dumplings! Naturally we decided to eat those first to give us enough energy to do some work..

Ros picked the first of our very impressive lemons and Pauline harvested some of the very first ginger ever grown in our gardens!

Diane has done wonders with her raised bed plot:

And Jess has grown some beautiful corn and pumpkins;

At our next working bee (3rd July) we plan to make some pumpkin soup, so make sure you come!