Tropical Heritage Garden Diary:

July 2015:

July 03:

Compost patches too....






.....and Eggplant recovering from being eaten by cow

Safely home alone again.....

Area selected for new animal pens

July 04:

Invaded by Turkeys!

Cutting trees for new animal pens

July 08:

Making sense of the mess

Getting the garden back from under the sawdust.....

Using the sawdust as compost




Not much happening under the netting!

July 11:

Guyabana (Soursop) tree fruiting

  Turmeric returning



Ginger too



and compost heaps recovering as well






Still lots of work cleaning up after tree felling



and hedge area needs cleaning too



Finished!



..... and a new garden patch area is created

July 14:

"Building the Reservoir"

July 15:

New Duck Sanctuary

After several ducklings mysteriously got killed


Now ready for planting

Anti-chicken protection for newly planted seeds

Will it work?

July 17:

Butlig has been diagnosed as having an umbilical hernia

Tomorrow the vet will come and operate

July 18:

July 19:

Not much to see here....



....although a few green shoots are found here

Butlig seems ok after his operation

....but goodbye Miss Piggy!

20 July:

Butlig seems happy -but hungry

21 July:

Rocks and Soil from Reservoir pit are separated for later use

July 22:

Butlig gets his daily post-op examination

Despite rain -no growth visible here

Or here



Or even here
after mosquito net removed


.... but perhaps some here

July 30:

Not Drought yet -but another difficult Dry Spell

3 PM -Rain!

3.35 PM -Sunshine?

July 31:

Today, Overcast -followed by Rain