Aracaria Work Diary

Linda/Stefan/Tewee/Elena/Aisha
Warm, sunny, little overcast, no rain, 24
GD
East: finished off gully plantation, mulch, watering. All plants are looking good. Fire weed & thistle walk.
West: toro Yankee Creek area, finished off fence plant-out
Yam harvest

Stefan/Linda/Twee/Muzz/Elena
East; finished mulching all the plants on eastern gully slope (major sweat hill). All look very nice with plenty of flushes. Especially the two sausage trees are doing well.
West: planted grevillias along Yankee Creek fence line to replace dead casuarina trees. Also dragon fruit all along fence. Big day. VG.

Stefan, Linda, Tewee, Elana
Warm, sunny, 23, GD
Moon: waning crescent, 35% full
West: re-planted dragon fruit from gatehouse along fence line, top area, cut lemongrass along terraces, cleaned up prunings from bottle brush fence line.
Toro: west: top area, east: top area, lower slope. Collected four mulch cages.

Warm, 21
Linda/Muzz/Tewee/Elena
Groundsel control on est.
Nursery trip for new trees.
Dump run, cow shit run
East: planting top area, continue lamandra grasses plant on eastern dam.
Pruning fence line between east / west

Warm, sunny, dry, possibly a storm later at night. 24
Moon: waning, gibbous, 99% full
Linda/Stefan/Tewee/Elana/Isha
Various maintenance jobs. Welded harvester, replaces fork handles, etc, cleared up getting fields ready for toro.
Lifter our own 500 (approx 120 horns)

Warm, little overcast, Moon 99% full
Horn lifting.
With the help of many visitors we lifted about 500 horns. The forth time the pit has been used. This time there were very few earth worms (in contrast to last year) but an enormous amount of white roots. We suspect that these roots came from the pumpkins growing on top of the pit. But we are not sure. Half of the 500 was lost this way. However, the other half is of very good quality.
Also stirred with flow-form and two coppers. 500 on most of the farm, all gardens, gatehouse garden, east slope and plantations, top areas both east & west.
Also lifted Yarrow. Again an unusual number of roots permeating through the preparations. Apart from that, quality seem pretty good.

Stefan/Linda/Tewee/Muzz/Hiroko/Elena
warm, sunny, dry, 22 - Moon waxing gibbous, 82% full
West: various cleaning, brush cutting, preparing for Sundays horn lifting day, cleaning processing shed, cut dowon all the dead causerina trees, tea preparing, some work on the terraces
East: panting and finishing plan-out eastern gully, upper section, fireweed & thistle control

Stefan/Linda/Tewee/Hiroko/Elena/Isha
Warm, sunny, spring, Moon:waxing gibbous. 67% full
VGD
West: weeded, toroed Yankee creek area, pecans, citrus, maccas up to rose tee trees. Re-positioned palms around YK water tank.
Weeded around tea house.
Various weeding, mulching in gardens.
Pruning of pecans, tree-pasting
Various maintenance jobs
East: planted rest of irises, plastic protectors on slop plant-out

Stefan/Linda/Tewee/Muzz/Hiroko/Elena (woofer from France)
overcast, rain, 29
East: Dug out many camphors upper eastern gully. Much regrowth. Nearly ready for planting.
Planted approx 30 grevillias along eastern fence line.
Cow shit run.
Fireweed collection. More planting eastern top area.
Knocked off earlier because of rain.

Linda/Tewee/Stefan/Aisha
Warm, little overcast, no rain, 21, GD
East: continued planting of eastern gully, approx 100 plants, all natives, many grevillias in middle section of upper slope
West: cut dead causerina trees along entrance, first section, many more to go
Big effort.