A Big Day in the Garden

Sensors for Greenhouse Doors

More Sweetcorn planted

Even more Sweetcorn

Cuttings from Solanum capsicoides

 

Tomato grafted onto Solanum capsicoides

Bird netting on Cherries (Prunus avium)

Codling Moth Experiment

Covered with nylon mesh curtains

Slugs and Spiders

Leopard Slug, Limax maximus

Garden Orb Weaving Spider Eriophora biapicata

Codling Moth Exclusion Time Again

More Work by the Chooks

Was leeks

Chooks at Work in the Garden

Lupinus polyphyllus

Anigozanthos flavidus

Fun With a Mouse

Whitefly on Kale

Whitefly like Kale more than I do - 

makes it easier to spray them all at once though

Chooks Testing the New Grandpas Feeder

The feeder closes when the chooks are not standing on the plate

A Family of Blackbirds

Turdus merula - the parents are been very busy, they return 

every five minutes while it's light with food

Bagged Grapes

Bagged grapes to keep the birds out

A Caterpillar on the Grapes

The grapes will be bagged soon

Apples filling the codling moth socks

Malus domestica 'Fuji'

Flies waiting for the rain to stop

Socks on the Apple Tree

Exclusion bags on the 'Fuji' apple to keep codling moth out

Chooks washed in miticide

Not a happy chicken...

Peach leaf curl

My peaches and nectarines were sprayed in August. These parts of my nectarine were underneath a neighbour's much larger peach tree.

Wax moths evicted from the beehive

Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens Spring Plant Sale

Brazilian Bell Flower Abutilon megapotamicum

Nylon socks on the quince to keep out codling moth

Caterpillar on Eucalyptus sideroxylon