Many thanks to Ali, Bev and Martha who joined me, Marg, Ben and Lucy to fix up garden beds and plant seedlings on 14/3/10. We also relocated a pond and it's ready and waiting for frog spawn.
We planted lots of lettuce, brocolli, carrots and corriander. I planted the seeds into polystyrene grocers boxes a month before.
Here's Marg filling the new pond with tank water pumped from the rear garden
The next day, I had a 1.5kw solar panel system installed, having paid for them back in November. Unfortunatley, they put 6 of the 8 panels on the South side of the house! And they broke lots of roof tiles. That'll teach me not to head off to work and leave them to it. I got the installer back to at least put three of the six on the north side.
A lovely array, but facing south!
(Postscript - I did finally get the contractor back to put the panels on the north. Now I'm having the battle to get the smart meter and payments for excess electricity generated).
wow! the vegie patch looks amazing!! & so quickly!
ReplyDeleteglad to have helped out... and many thanks for your wonderful hospitality and helping me learn more about permaculture on the day. :)
can't believe about the solar panels...:O , you would think that they would know better than to put most of them on the south side!
ali