Month: March 2020

Chipper

I’ve been hacking back the old apricot and plum trees, and removing the large 100 mm suckers that were coming up from the root stock. I don’t know if these will survive or not, but I am left with huge piles of branches to dispose of. Do I haul them...

Lemon Trees

Eva wanted some nice lemon trees, so we got one seedless variety, dug one up from the yard that wasn’t doing well, and got a double grafted lime with Tahitian and Kaffir limes one it. Now that I have the big pots I have them in a sheltered area of...

The Great Flood of 2020

It has rained heavily all day here, just starting to ease off a bit. The pond liner on the balcony seems to have done it’s job, we have had no leaks through the eaves. We have had a total of 80.39 mm recorded in our weather station, that’s just over...