About a month ago, Nathan and I were reading one of his books on Ecology and it gave some ideas on how to make a pond. It suggested finding some pond plants and a bucket of water from an existing pond. Well, lucky for us we have a friend with just those two things. So today our friend gave us a couple of containers of water and some lily pads to put in the pond. I dumped a generous amount of soil in the bottom, buried the roots of the plants as best I could and covered them with stones and filled up the pond again with the kids help.
So, if we're going to attract frogs to our pond, we're in the best position to now.
I can see my carrot bed very quickly getting low in growing carrots if the kids continue to snack on them. But ah well, I love to see the kids so excited about growing and eating our own produce I don't really care whether they grow to full size or not.
I have a few more silverbeet and beetroot seedlings that can be transplanted out soon.
My plum tree (which only has a few handfuls of plums growing this year) are starting to ripen. Was really cool to spot a lone red plum up there the other day. Nathan's already put in his request to make more plum ice cream as we did last year. We also recalled a couple of plum trees down by our local shops in a little grassy reserve area which hopefully we'll be able to gather from too.
This weekend I'm off on a Wild Foods Walk with friends which is being run by a local couple just a couple of roads over from me. So am really looking forward to being introduced to some new edibles growing in our own backyard so to speak.
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Hey Nik,
Still welcome to have our wee frogs if you like, just email me if you are interested :)
Cool! I've always wanted a pond. I can't wait to see how it comes along.
Whoo hoo, wild food! We have wild food possibilities in our yard...we also have wild eaters! Under one Elm we have a extensive clump of dew berries...critters love 'em...We have cacti with pads and pears...critters love 'em...We also have Mesquite pods also loved by critters. The Mesquite pods are the only thing I can "get first"! I'm researching how best to grind them and plan on capturing some next fall, before they actually hit the ground.
ooo cool! we used to get frogs in our chlorinated swimming pool, so a purpose built fabulous pond should have no problems!
Hiya,
I've been reading your blog for a couple of months now and I am always impresssed by what you grow and make with your produce.
I have a dream to one day have a piece of land where we can be self-suffient. My husband is a very creative electrician who will make our lives solar and wind powered one day. For now we grow what we can in our confined space and love it.
The wild food walk sounds very interesting. I can't wait to hear about what you find!
The pond looks great and I am sure you will have some frogs take up residence soon.
Hi Nikki - Sounds like your garden is going to be a lovely place to hang out this summer!
Have fun on the Wild walk! I can't wait to hear how it goes.
Cool having carrots to snack from. None of our carrots came up last year. Not sure why- apart from general incompetence on my part! Any tips?
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