Well, recent activity hasn't been so active.
We have started emptying the 'soil' from this year's pots and my front 'deck' (it's not really a deck, just a large slab of concrete added on the front of the house) is looking rather barren without the plants/weeds! Though, we have left the strawberries alone because we've already resoiled those plants.
We've left it up to our 3.5 year old to empty the 2 remaining pots - she enjoys being allowed to dig with her gardening tools, so whenever we have some sun she gets out there and digs out the soil a bit for us. It's a bit of fun for her, and I do try to sneakily get her doing things she enjoys that are actually 'housework'.
Now we're just waiting on a new batch of horse poo before refilling the empty/ing pots.
We've also been reading up on self sufficiency (not that this is our plan, we don't have room for a cow or two...) just to get an idea of what we can actually produce. I really do wish that more NZ based people would consider writing these books in some detail rather than reading a book from the UK and working out the seasonal thing because, they don't say "at the start of spring", no, they say "March is a good time to plant...", working out which plants we have here, etc, etc.
I'm almost finished one NZ based Self Sufficiency book. It's been a bundle of laughs and I take my hat off to the lady who wrote it. But, it's more about her journey, not what she actually plants, how she rotates the crops, etc, etc. I'll edit later and add the name of the book and author later, I don't have it handy right now.
So, that's what we've been doing. Which isn't much. *sigh* Not much you can do when waiting around for shit (how often do you get to say that line and mean it literally!) AND the season to change. Seems May-September is going to be a good time to learn more about growing techniques, companion growing (oh, the terms I'm learning already!), home made remedies (pesticides and fertilisers, etc.)
It'll also be the time when we purchase another bath-tub and hopefully start filling that! :o)
