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Looks really good Bec & I am envious of your lovely healthy plants. :sneaky:
I hope your chooks don't fly like mine are doing & get in there & dig it all up!
Mine have been digging my seedlings out left right & center. I am not set up to stop chooks getting into my garden.
This chook thing is driving me mad. :alien:
I resent having had them dumped on me by my daughter to be honest.
 

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Mine have been digging my seedlings out left right & center. I am not set up to stop chooks getting into my garden.
This chook thing is driving me mad. :alien:
Hehe, I had one of mine jump the fence and scratch out 4 x rosella seedlings I had planted mounded up all nice the other day... Needless to say that hen now has a clipped wing and won't be getting over her fence again anytime soon!
 

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Thanks guys! I'm am so very happy with where I'm going with a little tiny bit of self sufficiency! It was mail day at work today! One of the
girls got some hair products delivered, our optometrist got some handkerchiefs and I got some grow bags! I was soooo excited!

My girls are too spoilt to 'bother' with flying! They are pets in every sense of the word! When I'm home, they have the whole backyard to scratch up! Though I did have a casualty when I let my little frizzle Sussex in to visit... She ate my rubber tree seedlings... But that was my fault! Hehehe

They are heavy breeds... Australorpe, light Sussex, barnevelder, rhode is red... They're flat out getting up on the couch to sit on my lap! Which they do all the time! If I stop petting the Barney she gently pecks my hand until I start up again!
 

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Back from the dead!

I've been so lazy lately! Well... Lazy in updating online! At home I have been very busy!

I got a couple of pekins to add to my 7 chooks! Ended up with a male and a female... Now hubby is worried we may end up with many more ducks in the near future... Hehe

I have begun free ranging the chooks and ducks full time... We have a 1/4 acre... Back yard is fully fenced with 7ft high colourbond fence and plenty of sneaky places to hide if necessary. Everyone still goes back to their own coops for sleepy time! And so far everyone is still laying in the nest boxes in their respective coops. I think I'll go back to lock up during winter though... The foxes will be hungrier then!

Garden wise: every thing I tried over December was a massive fail! It was just wayyyyyy to hot for happy edibles! At the moment though, everything is going gang busters! My passion fruit is going rogue! Mouse melons are producing like crazy! I want to pickle them! Wish me luck! Beans, chillis, herbs, cauli, radish, beets, some chard starting up from seed, my blackberry is looking ridiculous! I've never seen something grow so quickly from nothing! It's the first year... So I think perhaps I won't get fruit from it????? But my god! It's HUGE! Seriously! If you don't have ducks you need a couple! So you can use their poopy pond water to fertilize the plants! Mine about double overnight when I empty the pond into the garden!

I just got a couple of Davidson plum trees in the mail, along with a couple of lychees. To add to my meager tree collection of a lemon and a dwarf mulberry.

I don't know if any of you listen to podcasts? I have a 45min commute to work, so I listen to several podcasts while I'm stuck in traffic! There is a great survival/prepper one with a guy who is really down to earth and just my cup of tea! He is in Texas, USA. But his ideas and info is really translatable! He is growing a food Forrest from scratch. I've been sucked in further to this self sufficiency business!

Just got 5kg each of wheat and barley seeds. I am going to try growing fodder! To feed the chooks, ducks, turtles and guinea pigs. A anyone else doing this? How's it working out? It looks pretty painless! Just gotta remember to rinse a few times daily!

I have also gotten into using a 'bullet journal' to keep track of finances mainly. But I have also got my monthly planting schedule and wins/fails In the garden in there. I have a history for being absolutely awful planning for the future! I absolutely LOVE IT! It's basically a flexible journal you create from a blank notebook. If you need to add something out of order you just note the page number in the index for easy locating later on and move on! There are a heap of you tube videos on the theory behind it. For someone like me who has a pretty spur of the moment, fly by my pants personality it is really helping!!!!

Anyway... Better be off to water my growing jungle!!!!! :)

Bec
 

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WOW sounds like it is all happening at your place Bec!
Isn't it a great feeling when things finally begin to fit into place? :thumbsup:
 

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I don't know if any of you listen to podcasts?
Do you listen to it via Apple or what service do you use Bec?

So you can use their poopy pond water to fertilize the plants! Mine about double overnight when I empty the pond into the garden!
I call it "duck juice" and I agree it's amazing fertiliser for the garden!

It sounds like very exciting growing times in your garden with heaps of things/projects on the go - I'm the same and I always prefer too much to do in a day than not enough :)
 

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Here is part of my blackberry! It's ginormous! With a volunteer nasturtium peeking out from underneath! Hehe

@Mark I have an iPhone, so I use the podcast app to listen to my podcasts. I have no idea about android... To think I studied IT 2o+ years ago! Shame on me not keeping up with technology!
 

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Here are my diddies from about a month ago... They are now fully grown and not keen on cuddles anymore! Pink bill is a girl KOKO, and orange bill is a male DEE DEE. I love having the crazy things running around! ☺️

I have changed my planting a little bit this year. I've added some useless decorative plants to my garden. I have relaxed a bit I suppose, and want pretty flowery things and green leafy stuff that may not necessarily be edible or useful. I think my garden has sensed the new attitude and is totally flourishing!

I planted three butterfly trees, to attract bees and other insects. And I have a little succulent/bamboo collection. The ducks like the succulents!!!! I had to relocate the plants to a safer (higher) location!
 

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Big day in the yards today! Mowed and put some weed mat down in my top garden. Put in a couple of climbing vine thingys... No idea what they are. They were cuttings gifted to me. My chard and radishes are doing great, the beets didn't sprout, so I put in some sugarloaf seedlings to flesh it out a bit!
Set up my mini fodder system, four trays that I will alternate setting seeds every other day. I am soaking barley at the moment, to set tomorrow.
Planted out some cukes and a few random volunteer tommies in the front garden... And did a bit of dead heading and leaf removal out there.
Set some cos seeds and some catmint for my new kittykat.
Time to sit down and enjoy the afternoon with the animals! ☺️
 

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Cukes are like shoes for me... Let me explain...
You can never have too many, they always fit/grow, there are different styles/types for every occasion!
 

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Have missed email updates of most of this post.
Still happening hey... :( I'll check the server logs to see if there's any glitches in the email sending.

The last thing we want is people missing out on updates to Becca's garden thread!
 

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Well... The pickling did not go well! Wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too salty! Ughhhh! My tongue shriveled INSTANTLY! Back to the drawing board in the recipe! Anyone got any good ones? I like a sweet/sour flavor.
 

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Well... The pickling did not go well! Wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too salty! Ughhhh! My tongue shriveled INSTANTLY! Back to the drawing board in the recipe! Anyone got any good ones? I like a sweet/sour flavor.
Oh that's such a bummer...nothing worse than growing a whole bunch of stuff and then losing it because of a dud recipe. I nursed a honey dew for months because I grew it out of season, and eventually it got so big I figured I should harvest it...not ripe, no sugar. Had to put it in the bin. So annoying! I did however manage to grow a bunch more seedlings from it...again, out of season! So we'll see. I feel your pain!
 
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