Scrumpers Delight

Years ago, I started to notice just how many fruit trees there are overhanging the streets of Sydney. I started marking them down so that each year I could go back eat some fruit and keep the streets clean at the same time!
Recently I realised that Google Maps could turn this into a joint community project, where anybody anywhere could place fruit trees onto the same map and allow anybody to find food in their area.
This is an untapped resource going to waste... by making the trees easily found we can help utilise the abundance that already exists in the community.
If you are interested, have a look at http://imagoforest.com.au/rs_ev.html

Wallabies revisited again!

Previous wallaby measures have met with limited success, and of course, just as I'm about to harvest some vegies, they get munched.

The latest round of defense includes, a possum live trap (just in case, it's not wallabies), Perra in the garden over night for the next week, blood and bone sprinkled around the perimeter as well as hair. All of which are meant to be a bit pongy for the wallabies.

It's been suggested that I grow mint outside the garden as they love that, but I'm a bit worried the mint might go feral! So I'll just be slashing away from the garden to promote fresh grass for them.

Left: fierce wallaby guard on duty.

No-effort transplants

A visit to a friend's wonderful garden in Singleton resulted in another improvement in the no-effort farming method.

As you know, we let the vegetables go completely to seed, which results in very thick beds of seedlings the next cycle. We've been harvesting these small plants as greens for salad, and to make room for the remainder to grow to a large size.

However this visit made me realise that they could equally be an ample source of healthy seedlings for other beds. 

So what we do now is, when a bed comes up thick with seedlings, we get a trowel and remove sections of them. These are teased apart and planted into bare spaces in other beds. This gives the seedlings more space to grow in the old beds and in the new beds. Best of all, it requires no work from us to create an abundant supply of happy and healthy seedlings.

Once again, the idea is to interfere less and let natural processes work to assist us.