@ctcarol, G'day Carol, wouldn't be much to see at Nullawarre, just a small general store with a petrol pump, a vet, a takeaway cafe and a rural store supplier, but it's a great location! It's the best dairy country around, generally free draining, but I had minor flooding here this year.I do work the soil, not a total organic grower, but keep it fertile with crop rotation, green manure, seaweed, animal manure and anything else that was once alive.
Rita, my vegie patch is dismal this year, I'm embarrassed to say, but still plenty of time for the summer veggies to go in. I grew a green crop in that area this winter and only cut it down this week.I plan to empty one of the half rain water tank compost bins into that patch ,it's beautiful and rich with heaps of worms.There is a dead koala in there and the worms are also fed with all the spare apples from the orchard, plus what felt like 10 ton of weeds.There is a bloke who sells bags of chook poo for $4 beside the road on the honour system, so a few bags go in as well to heat it up and kill off most weed seed..
You know, my best tomato plant last autumn, was a seedling that popped up by itself.It was one of the truss varieties which spread out over two metres, rooting as it went.Never have I had so many tomatoes and the taste was out of this world.I saved some for seed so hope to never be without it.
Never grown the yard long beans, only blue lake (climbing) and butter beans (bush), plus broad beans..Oh, also a Dutch bean, a type of kidney bean for my father when he was still on the planet.Dad made ''Bruine bonensoep'' (Brown bean soup).
How tall is your trellis for the yard long ones?Are they perennial or annual?
