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December 10, 2009
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Tjilkaba Outback Gardeners
There have been a few projects on the go for the gardeners this year...... |
| Market Garden Trial |
| Scotdesco has been working with Ron Newchurch, a commercial herb grower from Port Victoria, Ron is mentoring Scotdesco to help set up a commercial size market garden to grow corn garlic and snow peas. Trevor Scott and his team of workers have been busy preparing the site and hope to be in full swing harvesting the crop next winter. |
| Community Vegetable Garden and Propagation Shed |
Scotdesco Youth have been working with a mentor to develop a community vegetable garden and a propagtion shed which will be able to propagate up to 5000 seedlings. The garden is located near the community orchard and is producing stacks of veggies already......Glenette Miller and Trevor Scott are preparing the propagation shed ready to grow bush food and medicine seedlings to be planted on the property next year. |
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veggies loving the rain and the sun |
Community Chooks |
The wirangu nest kids preparing the manda for their strawberry patch |
Windbreak around Rainwater Harvesting |
Malcom Brown, Wade Miller and Gareth Scott have a contract to plant 1500 salt bush around the Rainwater havesting complex. Gareth and Wade expained that this will stop dust from landing on the catchment area and fouling the water. The old man saltbush they are planting will be quick growing and should start doing its job by 2011. In the future scotdesco gardeners aim to propagate the salt bush seedlings. |
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