Chooks, steel and garden stuff

Our four newly arrived chooks - nice looking birds from the sunshine coast
Yeap, that's a chicken tractor
Putting a fence around the veggie garden, you do have to dig down the fence because of our friends the rabbits

Posts marking the corner of the raised beds in the garden - can be used for many things, but mainly so that the garden hose doesn't take a shortcut across the beds

Tanya's herb spiral of her own design

There are many walkways in the garden - which means a lot of effort to make them work properly

You gotta love that fieldpea - only $3.95 a kilo as seeds and it is the hardest working seed in the mix

It was only a couple of weeks ago we seeded up the swale

The second shed

We just had 25 mm of rain, so we got the tanks set up just in time

Well, that worked out good

Levelling the pad for the tanks

They are so fast getting the frame up - hours not days

Buildings!

The making of a veggie garden - Part one

Putting the gravel on top of cardboard with folded sides on to the bedsIt takes a lot of gravel and cardboard

A pallet load of sugar cane mulch standing by for future use in the garden

Things...

A lot of irrigation outlet points around the garden

All the walkways are dug down and are on level

It is hard work

Good gravel

The future center aisle

The excavator makes the work a bit easier

Jesse brings in goodies from the garden every night

We are already seeing growth from what we seeded the other week

The topsoil in place

The site looks really big now when all the topsoil has been raked out