Best preparations for tomorrow are done today
Over at Dreamland we’ve been doing a lot of preparation to get it ready for planting the bare-rooted trees in a few weeks’ time. While preparing the holes, we’ve also [...]
landscaping
Digging in
A really crucial step on our Dreamland implementation schedule was to get the holes prepared in order to plant the larger fruit trees over the winter. We needed the holes dug [...]
Clearing the wood to see the trees
We’ve been talking about Dreamland as a “blank canvas” quite a bit, but in reality it was not so blank after all. That canvas required quite a lot of preparation, both [...]
Access to Dreamland
Before we could start creating Dreamland, we had to organise efficient access. Even though Gaë and Pauline (the wonderful previous owners), who are still renting, graciously [...]
About elephants and bull ants
In those early days when we laid out the vegetable patch we made a lot of mistakes. Sure some of those were our own errors, because we had no idea up-front how big our [...]
A dream to plan
Starting off on Dreamland, we knew we had to apply some strategic thinking. At Homeland we have learnt and are still learning a lot of lessons. Daily. Just recently I have [...]
A blank canvas
And so it starts all over again… But then, it’s never quite the same is it? In fact, it this case it is not even remotely the same, not even by a mile… But then, it [...]
Potato production pasted
So our vegetables were growing and mostly producing really well – we had something of everything in their appropriate seasons. Well, that is, except potatoes. So we started [...]
Line up a lane of fruit trees
We have a long driveway, about 120 meters of it – I know because a 100m hose pipe doesn’t reach to the end. That is a lot of real estate. However, on the one side it has [...]
Back yard make-over
This post isn’t about organic gardening at all – it’s all about a massive transformation to our living space – but of course we still used organic principles [...]