I did not
publish a blog for December as that month turned out to be a rest from
gardening as we had worked very hard to open our November ‘Open Garden’ and
left us ‘gardened out’.
Also,
Christmas is a family affair and we had grandchildren to look after and of
course everything else that goes with a family Christmas.
Some nice orchids out which do not seem to be affected by the heat.
December
was completely dry and for the most part HOT, not a good time for gardening.
January,
well it has been an absolute disaster with only a small shower which dried up
with the strong winds that followed with 30c plus temperatures every day with
no respite for the whole month.
We did get a good bunch of bananas off our sugar banana.
It is so
bad, much worse for the garden than the drought of 2009 where all the
politicians panicked and built pipelines to nowhere, dams not hooked up to pipes,
waste water that no one wants to use and a desalination plant that is rusting
away, not to forget the travesty of Traveston Dam where the Queensland
Government went ahead and bought all the land for untold millions then realized
they did not have to OK from the Federal government and had to resell the land
at an incredible loss.
Politicians
are a useless breed, for the most part afraid to make a decision and when they
do it’s usually the wrong one.
A prime example is the $50 billion submarine
program we are buying from the French, atomic subs converted to diesel by 2050,
what a joke.
Sorry about
my rant but sometimes I despair for this wonderful country.
The cost of
all these failures can be counted in the billions and who is paying for it, you
the taxpayer of course.
I bought a ‘Power
Planter’, not the one advertised but from Trade Tools, much more cheaper and
yes it is a good tool.
Even with
the heat I have still I managed to get three projects finished, photos below.
The dry has
really affected two of our Custard Apple trees and they are slowly dying, so I
have had to create a shaded are for the under-story, not a job I really wanted
to do but the plants are getting burnt in this long heatwave.
Every spare
bit of shade cloth has been used somewhere in the garden as it is so hot that
even our water hoses are melting.
We are
hosting a meeting in February for ‘The International Cordyline Society’, hope
we get some rain before then.
