Our Hungarian Waxy beans are proving to be phenomenal croppers - just a couple of minutes picking gave us this haul for dinner (and some for the freezer).
For small bushes they are hugely productive.

We’ve wanted a proper worm farm for ages but it wasn’t until we spotted an old bath pretending to be a water trough at Nic and Lou’s place that I put in the effort to make one. I had some left over 40mm thick pine from the stables fit out and scrounged a few left [...]

We got this little kitset greenhouse online for growing up a few seedlings. While it’s pretty flimsy and doesn’t like wind it does a pretty fair job. Here it is full of the current crop of seeds. The next photo is all the seedlings that have just come out, hardening off before we plant them.

For those wondering “what the heck is a paddock vac for”, well it’s a vacuum for the paddocks - more specifically the manure in the paddocks. This one is powered by a Honda 4 stroke 50cc engine and stores about a half a cubic metre on board.
The two main reasons for using it are: we [...]

The garlic we planted back in July is growing well, despite some competition from the local grass. With hot days coming I’m tempted to leave the grass to provide some shade but we’ll see how the garlic fares.

We’ve been collecting tree lucerne seedlings as we find them around the farm and assemnling a bit of a nursery. For many reasons, Tree Lucerne is the perfect tree for farms (or small blocks). So far we’re up to about 60 trees in the nursery but I think we’ll need 100’s over the coming years. [...]

I built theses tepees form bamboo stakes and twine - nothing fancy, just a platform for the beans and peas to climb.
These are bush bean varieties - they will fill the entire bed when fully grown.

We got 32 plants from our local nursery at the farmers market about a month ago. The plants sat outside hardening up through a few cold weeks before we got around to planting them. A big strip of carpet covers the whole bed and we just planted through holes cut at regular spacings. The carpet [...]

This table started life as a herb table a couple of years ago but I’ve recycled it with a bit of modification into a potting table. There’s room for potting mix, trays, pots and all the bits and pieces so there’ll be no more seed planting on the dining room table! Made from 75mm Macrocarpa [...]

This is the paddock behind the house that I’ve just turned into vege garden. It’s about 450 square metres so should provide plenty of space to grow all the veges we are planting at the moment. I started using a walk-behind rotary hoe. Fortunately it broke down and I ended up getting a tractor-mounted cultivator [...]