The garden has been a bit depressing lately, because it's so dry and dusty, and the extreme heat has made it unpleasant to work outside for long. Also, with everything being so dry, it's been hard to find enough mulch to throw into the main dome for the chooks to turn over. This weekend, we decided on a change of plan. For the past couple of years, we've been moving the main dome round two mandalas, keeping it on each circle for about two weeks. We've also had another dome, donated by a friend, which has been sitting near the pumpkin patch. Now we've decided instead to put a dome on each mandala, and move them once a month instead of every two weeks. I'm not sure whether this will actually be more effective, but it seemed a good idea at the time!
In spite of the heat and drought, mandala 2 is still producing amazing tomatoes, zucchinis and cucumbers. Here are some of the tomatoes:
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We also found that rockmelons really enjoyed the heat, along with our eggplant and chillies.
Posted by: Ian Forrester | April 06, 2009 at 08:43 PM