Big Pile of Soil

Saturday morning we had 3 cubic metres of compost delivered.

And with my trusty helper we filled the 5 raised beds I had made over the last few weeks. I decided to go for compost from the local garden supply place, the pile was still steaming when it arrived. We did find a couple of extra things in there, a local restaurant must be missing some cutlery!

 

 

Zane was a great help with his shovel and wheel barrow!

 

I ordered abit too much, so the rest was mixed in with the compost pile I built a couple of weeks ago, it was due for a turning so I just layered in some of the delivered compost with the existing pile.

 

 



Last Weekend

Down at the house again this last weekend, just for Friday and Saturday as we had to come back for a trivia night for the fire brigade I'm a member of, it was a fun night but we didnt win.

Made 2 more planter boxes, this time I had to buy the wood, one will be for the gooseberry bushes I have ordered and the other for vegies. The Boss has approved the placement of the boxes and hopefully next weekend I will get some soil delivered,

 

Also spent some time sorting out the wood shed, it is about half full but when I removed the useable planks and restacked the firewood I found a fair bit is small branches rather than larger split logs. Hopefully we will have enough for the winter, there are a couple of piles around the place that need to be cut and split if we start to run out and there is a large gum tree by the dam that has fallen but I think that will be next years firewood.

Blueberries and boxes

Another day and more jobs to do, firstly the boys wanted to plant some blueberry bushes. They are the boys current favourite fruit and if you have seen the price of them you will understand why I want to be growing them rather then buying them!
As usual I enlisted my young helpers, first we dug the bed

 

Then each of the boys planted a bush

 

As with everything at the moment Zane was saying its going to be a race to see which bush fruits first!
Next on the list of jobs was clearing the covered area of the many boxes and making up the new outdoor setting, again with my able helpers!

Surprisingly we managed to build the setting ok even with Zane wanting to tighten every screw himself.

After a walk around the back I found some planks of wood, with more usable wood from the wood shed and  nails from the shed I was able to knock together a raised bed, I even used tools that I had found lying around!
This along with 2 others I have made are going on an area I have just cleared along the carport, hopefully I will get the soil in them next weekend and be able to plant some stuff out soon.

 

Worm farm

One of our first jobs was to build a worm farm, I bought the Worm Cafe and 1200 worms from Bunnings and enlisted my 2 helpers to set the worm farm up.

It was easy to put together, just clipping in the legs and moving into place.

 

After soaking the bedding materail we placed the worms in their new home, we'll leave them to settle in then start to feed them kitchen scraps. Zane is looking forward to getting the worm wee!

We have since got another worm farm, this time from Aldi and half the price of the first one! So now the boys have a worm farm each to look after

 

 

 

The beginnning

Well the journey has began, we have bought a place in the country and this is our story about the house, the land, the boys and our move from suburbia to a small rural town.

This is the new place located in Kardella, about 5km outside of Korumburra in South Gippsland Victoria. Its a 4 bedroom weatherboard house with large veranda situated on 4 acres, 2 under title and 2 on railway lease. The property backs onto the South Gippsland Tourist Railway but don't worry the trains only run on Sundays!.

We got the keys to the place mid February and for the time being will be down there mainly at weekends with the plan to move down there permanently later in the year.

The idea behind this blog is to let family and friends see what we are doing, our projects, our successes and our failures! As we try to build our place in the country,  produce some food and raise some animals. I doubt we will ever get to be self sufficient but we will be able to reduce our footprint and produce some nice fruit and veggies!