Being mid-late June, it was time to venture back down to Perry’s Fruit and Nut nursery to collect some bare-rooted trees that were dormant an sitting in their ’sandpit’. We bought a plum, peach and almond.
This is the bare almond. The plum and peach look pretty much the same…
As a special deal, we got 10 strawberry runners for free. We also bought a caper and a blueberry variety that is suited to the Adelaide plains (low frost for setting) that needs a pot as they require acidic soil that is not naturally found in our area.
The strawberry runners have been planted in a narrow ridged bed that has a low brick wall around it.
Now that all of the fruit and nut trees have been planted for now, it’s time to focus on the vegetable patches.
The first bed that has cauliflowers, peas, mint, chinese celery and a daisy is doing ok. The cauliflowers, being very late, have barely grown but the peas are about 5 cm high now.
The second bed has been layered (cardboard, straw, compost, grass and leaves, lime/dolomite, mushroom compost, straw) and is waiting for something to go in it. Then perhaps a third, fourth, maybe fifth bed, maybe a herb spiral…
