Simo's Block

Peasants · **Posted:** Sun Nov 18, 2012 2:32 pm

Looking great Simo! :thumb:

Burnsy · **Posted:** Thu Nov 22, 2012 9:31 pm

Looking good simo, your zucs are nice and advanced. We have a big wormwood in our chook run as well. I dug it out from under the big one that was in my parents run, not sure if it had struck or grown from seed.

Simo · **Posted:** Sat Dec 15, 2012 12:31 pm

Wind 1, Corn 0 :bash:

70mm of rain between wed an Fri, good for the tanks and gardens at least.

Simo · **Posted:** Sat Dec 15, 2012 12:33 pm

Here is the orchard all mulched up for the summer.

gazza · **Posted:** Sat Dec 15, 2012 4:09 pm

Looks like a pretty comprehensive orchard Simo!

Peasants · **Posted:** Mon Dec 17, 2012 4:24 pm

Simo wrote:

Wind 1, Corn 0 :bash:

70mm of rain between wed an Fri, good for the tanks and gardens at least.

Ah, nature.......sometimes it just doesn't go according to plan. Were you able to stake the corn back up or did it break?

Simo · **Posted:** Mon Dec 17, 2012 6:46 pm

I stood it back up and used some rope to hold them mostly up right so they should be ok.

Snags · **Joined:** Wed Jul 07, 2010 10:52 pm **Posts:** 234

if you got some dirt build it up around them.
Corn will let out more roots from the stem

Simo · **Posted:** Tue Dec 18, 2012 9:02 am

Great idea Snag, I can see the surface roots so it should help stablise them.

Simo · **Posted:** Fri Feb 08, 2013 11:00 am

I had six week off work over summer so decided to try and be productive, the biggest job was too landscape and area next to my shed and move the aquaponics sytem so that it is closer to the power source and add a bigger sump tank and second fish tank so I can have trout in the cooler months and silver perch all year round in separat tanks so the small silvers don't get eaten by the trout. I is now also neater, more functional and I have room to expand with more grow beds.

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Jaymie · **Posted:** Fri Feb 08, 2013 12:19 pm

looks good

gazza · **Posted:** Fri Feb 08, 2013 12:29 pm

Tidy as!

Faye · **Posted:** Fri Feb 08, 2013 7:18 pm

Looks like a brand new system Simo! Summer is a real killer when those 40 degree days carry on, don't you reckon?

Bender · **Posted:** Sat Feb 09, 2013 12:37 am

Awesome. Love your work Simo

Simo · **Posted:** Sat Feb 09, 2013 11:13 am

Faye wrote:

Looks like a brand new system Simo! Summer is a real killer when those 40 degree days carry on, don't you reckon?

Have you been spying on me Faye :inspect:

. What you are looking at is about a weeks soild work and all in 35C+ heat, nearly bloody killed me :crazy:

but I guess hard work is its own reward.

I also took a trip to Tass1Trees (I'm lucky to have him just down the road from me) intending to buy two blueberries and a Kaffir lime, got chatting with Joe and walked out with:

Two Blueberies
Kaffir lime
Native "Red Centre" lime
Native finger lime
Brazilian cherry
Ceylon spinach
Red currant
White current
Sultana grape
Dawn seedless grape
Pomegranite
A native berry of some sort
& A Moringa drum stick tree

So the food forest is comming along nicely, also have my eye on two date palms but at $75 each I might have to wait until my birthday.

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