G'day all.We are 18 days now into spring and soon the apple orchard will be blooming.As I grow oats beneath the trees, these need to be cut down now, or the apple buds can be damaged due to strong winds blasting the oats against them.This year they did not grow as well as the two previous years (the oats).The only thing I did differently was to rotary hoe the seed in, whereas before I dug two shallow trenches on each side of each row with the Dutch hoe, sprinkled the seed along and back filled.The oats are used as a green manure crop that feeds the worms as it breaks down and insulates the top soil against the high summer heat.I pulled up the oats by hand on one side of a row to see the oats root system and check the worm activity.Easy to do sitting on a milk crate with the soil still saturated and took no time at all.I reckon you could play noughts and crosses on my bum due to the milk crate structure.
So, a few pictures, none of the latter though
A few worms breeding in one of the over wet worm bins.Sorry its a bit out of focus.
