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An Invite to the St Johns Orchard Official Opening
Come along and help celebrate the opening of the Community orchard in St Johns Avenue, on Sunday the 26th of September 11:30am onwards. Hot drink and snack provided to all attendees. Everyone is invited – come and have a look at the progress that the orchard group have made, and the plans for the future. If you can, bring some herb cuttings for the meditation garden.
Enquiries to Ruth on 6278 3608 (AH).
St Johns Orchard in Winter
Pruning Time
We are pruning the fruit trees at the St Johns Community Garden this month, (Sunday 30th May, at 11:30am). Come along and learn some handy hints on how to prune stone fruits and plums. All welcome, new and old visitors to the orchard.
Bring your own secateurs, garden gloves a warming drink and snack.
Planting garlic at the orchard
We are planting out the garlic bed on Sunday 25 April at the St Johns Community
Orchard (9 St Johns Avenue). You are welcome to come along and assist.
Please bring gloves, and a garden fork/trowl if you have one.
The other job that needs doing is pruning the fruit trees, so if you
would like to do this, [...]
Chooks for Sale
I have some black Pekin bantams for sale. They make good pets for small backyards are they are very docile and tame. There are two hens and three roosters.
Please contact Ruth on 0408344105 if you are interested.
How the summer preserves workshop went
Felicity, Melinda, Jane and I sat around my kitchen table and talked about preserving food and how to do it. We practised putting apricots in a Fowlers jar (pic of 3 jars) and I set my preserver going later that afternoon (pic of preserved apricots, yellow tomatos and tomato puree). Felicity kindly wrote the following [...]