Growing Organic Herbs On The Farm
OK… it’s been a really long time since I’ve posted on the blog… really sorry, but so much has happened since March!!!
We’ve bought a small farm in South Australia, just on the outskirts of the Barossa Valley. It’s 111 acres, though about 100 acres of it is share farmed.
We got it for a great price, but the drawback is that there’s no mains water or power. We’re going to have to get quite creative to give this old homestead back it’s life.
The photo to the left is a small section of garden I’ve started on. I’ve just planted herbs as they’re the toughest plants around. Though I’m not sure if even they will survive given our sudden and long burst of very hot (spring) weather we’re getting here.
This week the temperature is all over 35 degrees C (95F) with a bunch of days in a row of 39 degrees C (102F). Bucketing water in this heat is a real strain. So it seems summer has hit us early – very little spring. Our seasons seem to have been going directly into the extreme weather without much in the way of autumn or spring these past few years.
There are also quite a few challenges to growing a beautiful and productive organic food garden on this piece of land that I’ll be talking about in my next post.
Happy Organic Gardening, Healthy Living…
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