Update on "The yard'

In the last few months since my last post we've planted the raspberrys (see post on raspberrys 27/7/1 )  and did lots of work in the garden, we planted some tomatoes, lettuce, watermelons, rocket, capsicum, chilli, beans, carrots, beetroot, and mangle-wurzel. We also harvested our wheat , pumpkins, onions, garlic, and some of our corn, tomatoes, and beans. In the holidays we mulched our native garden and fruit trees, then we made three pens for our sheep.

The Raspberrys

Just planted tomatoes

Watermelons

Mangle-Wurzels

Corn

Peas and Beans

Our Bean and Pea patch

 According to our crop rotation plan we are supposed to plant Beans and Peas in May. A friend told us that beans wouldn't like the frost so we only planted a few.
The first problem we came across was frames, Jerry from Gardening Australia uses bamboo lattice frames but we found that they cost to much and thought that they probably wouldn't last very long,so we used steel mesh instead ,We also found some cheap bamboo poles so we got them and made tepees out of them with wire.
We also did an experiment by soaking half the seeds in water to boost germination and were going to see which ones come up best.

Steel mesh frames

Bamboo pole frame