Spring has Spring

Its mid October and the plant life around the homestead has been showing us their goods for a couple of weeks now. The daffodils, Jonquils, around the orchard were just spectacular however they were pretty short lived. Their bouquet was amazing.

We are in the process of a redesign of the homestead garden but we would like to thank our predecessors for such a beautiful array of colours.

If you havent booked in at Greenvale in spring then you are missing out on a performance.....

The Veggie garden

The paddock where Maddions the lamb and Rory the calf spent most of this year has now been converted into the the Veggie patch. Around 6 tonnes of dirt has been taken from other parts of the farm. Most of the seeds that we are wanting to grow for this season are either in the ground or in seed trays under one of the two mini green houses we knocked together.

From memory we are/have planted heritage carrots and tomatos, several types of potatoes, leeks, lettuce, cappicum, chilli, pumpkin, beetroot, parsnip, corn, cucumber, celery, egg plant, shallots, white and red onion, radish, peas several types of beans, brussels, cabbage, cauliflower, silverbeet.

What makes it out who knows but the peas and pumpkin and some beans have already sprouted.

We have also purchased some berry bushes, Strawberry, Raspberry and blueberry, which may take a few years to really settle in.

The long term goal will be to offer our guest fruit and veg straight from the garden, you cant get more local than that, but we'll see how this little project goes first.