Triangle

My potatoes are flowering - pretty - the only flowers of any significance around here so far.



We've finished filling in the triangle at the end of the roof (pediment)
First feijoa flower - only one and so pretty but no competition for 3 long rows of flowering spuds.
Scully revelling in being dried off after a sprint in the rain. That is a bamboo fibre towel and remarkably heavy.

Alternative view on our advance towards orderly living. I'm hoping that infill at the front will lower the upper limit of horizontal rain hitting the doors.

We also had to pour away about 700 litres of rainwater we collected yesterday when it became apparent the tank we had set up to save the overflow from our main tank wasn't on a well designed base.  We collected some of it in buckets and cans to pour on pot plants and seedlings over the next couple of days.

Progress, of sorts, in the veg garden; mainly from potted plants. (only the spuds are thriving growing in this soil.  It's first year, I'd not expected any better results at this stage.)



Comments

  1. I love to see glimpses of the gorgeous scenery in the background of your photos. What a place to live!

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  2. Hari Om
    The sort of progress that lifts the heart and bears great promise for what's to come! And I've yet to meet a dog that doesn't enjoy the towel massage... YAM xx

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  3. Things are looking good. You have much of the pioneer spirit about you - pretty essential, I'd say.
    Horizontal rain is a problem wherever it flies.

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  4. For the first year that is brilliant!
    I've never seen Feijoa flowers to notice before..I've only once been to NZ this early in Spring..the first time...when everything was just wow!!
    I haven't seen bamboo towels here..but bamboo socks and underwear are comfortable..lucky Scully!

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  5. Nice to see the cabin progressing well..pity to lose the water, but..it is a learning curve

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  6. You"ve made.some great progress thus far. Arilx

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  7. now I am wondering if Daddy's potatoes he grew on top of the mountain made of clay, orange clay, in Kentucky in the early 50's, had flowers. I was 10 and we had no camera and don't remember the flowers. or if they had them... love the towel loving Scully, but you knew that... Beaus dog bowl is bamboo, I love it. amazing all the different things they can make out of it, socks, towels, clothring and furniture and floors. truly amazing.. I LOVE THIS LITTLE HOUSE. I could live in it with only 1 bedroom and a functioned indoor bathroom with no problem.. its really just to cute for words.

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  8. So impressive!- the cottage, the veg the flowering whatevers! Absolutely thrilling to me !So much success! Everything looks wonderful. You can be well pleased with yourself! Wish I was there...winter coming on up here and we are feeling it!

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  9. You have worked miracles and a short time.
    I hope that you get rain once the tank has been repositioned and you make up the loss quickly

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  10. Amazing what you have done so far. I havent tried growing potatoes yet but maybe I should. I've had to put netting over my veges and herbs as some little white things are eating them.

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