Aracaria Work Diary

Stefan, Tewe, Darrin, Barrie
War, few showers, sunny afternoon. 24. Moon: waning, 10% of full.
Market harvest.
Prepared GG pecan orchid for harvest. Brush cut entire area.
Prepared two new beds on east, top area.

Stefan, Barrie, Tewe, Darrin
Mild, overcast, few showers, 22. Moon: waning, 24% of full.
Finished Yankee Creek brush-cut. Freed all the young trees. Big job.
Needs to be done three times a year instead of once.
Old garden, work as usual.
Tea shed gardens cleaned up and re-planted and mulched.

Stefan, Tewe, Barrie
Hot morning, overcast afternoon. 30. Moon: waning, 90% of full
Old garden prepration, planting.
Slope weeding and mulching nearly finihsed.
Toro lower slope east, main paddock west.

Stefan, Tewe, Barrie, Darrin
Warm, sunny, dry 23. Moon: 91% of full
Old garden bed preparation.
First week back to market after the rains.
Continued weeding, mulching eastern slope plant-outs. 2/4 finished.
GH, dive fix - finally.

Stefan, Tewe, Barrie, Darrin
Warm, sunny, dry, 25. Moon 75% of full.
Old garden, planting, propagating, potting.
Clearing, weeding eastern upper slope, irises, lomadras and trees.
1/4 done, continue of Thursday.

Barrie, Tewe, Darrin
Planting, terraces, old garden
Big clearing, weeding of western top area and gully.

501 on gardens, terraces, raised beds

Stefan, Barrie, Tewe, Darrin, Jerry.
Little rain in the morning, overcast, warm. 20. Moon: waxing, 10% of full
Weeding and clearing plant-out east, eastern border. All have grown well. Only two losses. Brush-cut and mulched trees along fence line.
Weeded, cleared and mulched mangoes/mandarin plantation.
Old garden and terraces work, potting.

Field day with farm walk and stirring 500 in flowform. About 50 people turned up. Nice day.
500 in gardens, pecans and around tea shed.

Stefan, Barrie, Tewe, Darrin, visit from Brian Keats
Humid, hot, dry. Thunderstorm late afternoon, 24. Moon: waning, 2% of Full
Big preparation day for Sunday’s Field Day. Whole place looks as good as it will ever look.

Stefan, Tewe, Barrie
hot, dry, 32. Moon: waning, 15% of full.
Old garden work continues.
Big brush-cutting, toro, top areas, middle paddock, drive, mangoes, tea-shed area, citrus.
All looking good.