Chookie wrote:
What are your outputs at the moment?

Veggie wise not much as I've been very preoccupied with outside
interests for the last couple of years so the vegetable production has
been left to its own devices but I've just started to rejuvinate one of
the lowest and saltiest areas of my block (all my block is salty some
areas worse than others)
this is probably one of the worst bits and it was compact and sour
looking, but now has healthy Beans, Silver beet, Lettuce, Beetroot
(shudder) Garlic chives, a patch of mint? (no idea where that came from)
and Capsicum's .... nearby in better ground has Pumpkin, Zuccini,
Tomato and chilli .... but harvestable, only Silver beet at the
moment....and maybe the odd lettuce.

What are you putting in?
Veggies see above .... also tryin to get some Old Man salt bush, wind
breaks along the Northern edge of above area and between the new small
paddocks we are establishing as rotational grazing areas.

Energy input ... way too much, the work I've been doing has meant using
the tractor and ute a lot for digging and carting of mulch etc, plus
wayyyy too much hoeing and raking for my liking, but eventually it will
be worth it as the input will be minimum apart from moving manure from
the nearby horse yards onto the garden.


What else are you planning to do in the short term?

Sort out a reliable but small solar power system to run the lights and
some of the smaller iems in my office/studio and shed.

Devise a way of getting the septic tank pump out into a holding tank
that can gravity feed an area of tall wheat grass which we are trialing
for fodder and saline area reclamation.

Establish the shade house and meat rabbit shelter (same structure)
before I die of old age.

Spend more time fishing

Try to work out how to spend more time fishing while doing all the above
jobs as well.


What about longer-range plans?

Did I mention the fishing?


What PC problems/puzzles are you having?

To convince the earwig population that cardboard and rolled up newspaper
is far more nutritious than my lettuce and S,Beet.

Devise a windbreak for my now solitary Olive tree that wont drink all
the water meant for the Olive tree, but will be strong enough to let me
keep even just one Olive on the tree .... thats all I ask ... one ....I
could make a martini maybe....


What PC problem have you solved recently?

None ..unless you count getting out of Christmas shopping by convincing
"the girls" it would be a great idea for them to have a girls day out
and do the Christmas shopping at the same time ... that was a long
standing PC (Pre Christmas) problem for me.


Pete