Dexter, looking bovinely-curious at Steve - perhaps its the rainbow umbrella that has caught Dex's eye, who knows....but they do now have a paddock of very lush grass....
I planted this red paw paw a matter of weeks ago (from Daley's Nursery at Kyogole, of course) and it has just taken off like a weed. I'm so impressed. I love green papaya (paw paw) salad, so I'm looking forward to harvesting the unripened fruit from this guy in a year or two.
The floodwaters came up quite high above some of our plantings...the wild tobacco bush (stand back, they bite) and the other young trees you can see in the shot are of course usually high and dry.
What a beautiful paddock our bottom paddock has become now that we mow it on a fortnightly basis. We really are pretty proud of our work down there. And it's great to mow...you just sit on Roger (that's what we have called our zero turn ride on mower so one of us can say 'I'm just going to roger the paddock') and away you go. It takes, hmm, about 90 minutes to mow the entire lower paddock, although the next time will be longer. You can see how high the creek is - wouldn't have taken much more rain and it would have inundated the paddock.
These cuties are called storm crocuses...they just erupt out of the ground after heavy rains....most are this cream colour but we do have the occasional crimson one. I tolerate these in my Big Bush Garden even if they aren't ridgy didgy native.
Dexter, looking bovinely-curious at Steve - perhaps its the rainbow umbrella that has caught Dex's eye, who knows....but they do now have a paddock of very lush grass....
I planted this red paw paw a matter of weeks ago (from Daley's Nursery at Kyogole, of course) and it has just taken off like a weed. I'm so impressed. I love green papaya (paw paw) salad, so I'm looking forward to harvesting the unripened fruit from this guy in a year or two.
The floodwaters came up quite high above some of our plantings...the wild tobacco bush (stand back, they bite) and the other young trees you can see in the shot are of course usually high and dry.
What a beautiful paddock our bottom paddock has become now that we mow it on a fortnightly basis. We really are pretty proud of our work down there. And it's great to mow...you just sit on Roger (that's what we have called our zero turn ride on mower so one of us can say 'I'm just going to roger the paddock') and away you go. It takes, hmm, about 90 minutes to mow the entire lower paddock, although the next time will be longer. You can see how high the creek is - wouldn't have taken much more rain and it would have inundated the paddock.
These cuties are called storm crocuses...they just erupt out of the ground after heavy rains....most are this cream colour but we do have the occasional crimson one. I tolerate these in my Big Bush Garden even if they aren't ridgy didgy native.
2 comments:
Heya Kevin! I absolutely love what you guys are doing with your land. It looks like a little piece of paradise! The lower paddock is beautiful!
xxx
micha
Lush life there!
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