New chicken run

My freind Shane wanted some more area for his chickens and had a heap of wood from an old fence. So together we created a new movable wire frame that connects to his existing coop.

Tripod round up

Here is the summary of the seasons experiment with tripods and vertical gardening.



The butter nuts at first worked ok on the tripod but turn your back for only a week or two and it escapes. I think becuase the season is so long here it is hard to keep it constrained to the tripod. You could harvest the pumpkins that form early then pull then plant out but my plant is still showing no signs of slowing down with new pumkins still setting. Will I do it again? Probably not. pumkins want to be free!

The rock melons where a dead loss. I just used seeds from shop purchased one and I am pretty sure they whee hybrid. The plants where spindly and they set only one or two small strange looking fruit. Rock melon vines are smaller than the pumpkin vines and I think I'll give them another go next year up the trellis.
Keep gardening

Clean up

Had a clean up of the garden today especially this thing that I never identified.




Then into the compost



Machetes are great for chopping up this stuff.