Sunday

We did loads today. After going out for breakfast we planted the magnolia tree next to the wash bay. I am not sure what type it is (it was only $5)... hopefully it's grandiflora.

This is the Puriri tree we planted yesterday, and George's strop.

Close up of the Puriri. Hopefully it will get quite tall and canopy like so the horses can use it for shade (it's in the track).

Then we planted 4 Mexican Alders along the eastern boundary around the outside of the track. This was always my intention for the area between the outside of the track and the boundary fence, meaning it will be a nice boundary hedge. 4 down, probably 100 to go!

You can't really see them in this shot.

Close up of one of the Mexican Alders. We have one up by the house too. They got a but windburnt yesterday when they were sitting in the wheelbarrow during that really windy bit before the rain. But they looked happier planted! There was heaps of worms in the topsoil (lovely crumbly top soil).


Then we nailed up some wind protection cloth along the boundary fence between the neighbours house (and their goats) and the pittosporoms. We will do all the way down as this western side gets so much wind, but we ran out of staple thingies.

Then we planted the 4th Magnolia Michelia Figo tree next to the hay shed so there are now 4 along that fence line. (Post and Rail).

This is the western side where we put up the wind sheeting - it's a bit messy this area we have lots of weeding to do along this fence line and tidying up to do as well - and we need to replace a few pitto's. At least now the goats won't be able to stick their heads through the fence.

Then we planted the two camelias - not sure what kind sorry - they were $5 each too, up by the gate.

Then I weeded along the grisilinea line of trees (south boundary), you can see the new grissys we planted to replace the ones that got wet. The guy at the nursery said alot of people kill their grisilineas in summer because they water them too much. Ours just got really wet over winter.

More flowers on the Pohutukawa tree.

Looking at the wind sheeting we nailed up, from the wash bay. It looks so much better. That pile is some more willow mulch for the mandarin area (the drip area should I say).

With the 52 mandarins we have planted over 78 trees so far.!

George then had a fly of his model helicopter on the concrete pad and now he is watering the pad so it doesn't crack. We had the rest of our organic peas in a rice dish I made in the crockpot for tea (tuna, brown rice, sweetcorn, tomatoes and peas).