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25.01.2022 A few critters from around the garden. A reminder why I don't use chemical sprays - aphids on the beans attracted a couple of hungry ladybirds and an interesting little spider. A female Rufous Whistler was flitting around and you can't beat an energetic Willie Wagtail to make you smile.

25.01.2022 The Black Sapote and the Soursop are flowering now too. Both rather weird flowers and almost unnoticeable

22.01.2022 More harvests this week - Dragon fruit (lovely with a squeeze of lime), lots of huge passionfruit plus some seedlings almost ready to plant out in the vegie patch: from left Rockmelon, New Guinea Bean (I've never had any success with NGB and these look the same - at least I'm consistent!), peas, pumpkin and sunflowers. They will just be planted in their 'pots' as they encourage the roots downwards and seem to protect the seedlings from cutworm and other beasties. The NGBs will be left to hopefully get their act together.

21.01.2022 Shared from a new liker's page. Hi there Townsville.blue

19.01.2022 More fruit producing right now - the passionfruit and the lime are both doing really well and the pomello has had its first reasonable harvest.

18.01.2022 Just because we don't run the B&B any more, doesn't mean we don't have plenty of guests around. We have Pat, who looks after the snail mail in return for bed and board, the rather shy Herbert whose regular room is the little herb wicking bed by the kitchen door and a large group booking of seven youngsters from the Kermit family, courtesy of our successful frog pond.

17.01.2022 Pheasant Coucal resting in a tree. It's call is a bit like wine being poured from a bottle - glug, glug, glug :-)

17.01.2022 I've been really slack about posting - understatement considering I haven't posted since August last year. So here are a few photographs of what is flowering here at the moment.

16.01.2022 My little herbie wicking bed. I decided to construct a new one but I reused the pipe from the previous several-years-old one.

15.01.2022 I love produce swaps! I gave away some rosellas and mulberry leaves, in return I got some achacha, a pawpaw, two avos and a little jar of achacha jam. I think I got the better end of the deal - the fruit is gorgeous and from a wholly biodynamic farm too. The chinwag about gardening was thrown in free by both sides :-)

14.01.2022 15mm of rain yesterday evening and overnight. So today a flurry of planting while the soil is nice and damp and the rainwater tanks are topped up. Also some plant swapping today - a neighbour sharing some massive variegated pandanus in return for a native hibiscus seedling. I lost my previous beautiful pandanus plants in the long dry so I'm hoping I can give the new ones enough water this time. Ironically the hibiscus seedlings came from a stunning tree that had got too big for its location and had to be cut down! That's gardening - you win some, you lose some. Two new hib seedlings planted out today in a better location.

14.01.2022 I certainly didn't know some of these...the second and fourth are the most surprising I think.

09.01.2022 Anyone want a B&B? This is a beautiful house but I'm not looking to move and start up a business again so I won't be in competition with anyone :-). With just $150 entry fee and a 200-word essay someone is going to get a wonderful prize.