In summer there is the constant weeding that has to be done and in winter, daily watering. Needless to say the weekends do not stretch far enough for us to be working in there all the time. The question is....do we really need a vege patch and the answer very simply is - yes we do. How then do we solve our predicament of too few hours to make it productive enough for us to benefit from it?
Before we left to go on holiday, it was already in dire need of a good clean out, but at least we had something growing in it. I had hoped the fairies may be bored while we were away and they would spend some time cleaning it for us, however the fairies obviously took one look at the mess and decided they were on holiday too. What did happen whilst we were away, is the pea fowl discovered that there is actually delicious food in it, so by the time we came back, it was all devoured. That's right, they absolutely stripped the place of everything. Besides the sweet potatoes which are growing under the soil, everything else was gone, with just stalks as evidence of there ever being anything at all.
So that decided it, we had to close off the area under the shadecloth at least so that the peafowl would not be able to get inside. First we spent the day cleaning and pulling all the weeds and then we pulled what remained of the veges out. Johan found some wire which we used to close up most of the area with a piece open for him to make a gate so that we can get through to the other side. For now, it is covered up with a spare piece of shade cloth and that has done the trick to keep the peafowl out. Now we must look for new seeds and plant all over again, hopefully come summer we will have some nice crops of veges that we can pick both for ourselves and to share with the rabbits and birds....
Fencing going up
What was left of the spinach plants
What was left of the Zimbabwean cabbages
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