Back home and the temperature is really high!
What gives?
From the aircraft, things looked dry over Central (always are I suppose) but green as Southland rolled out below. My own garden/orchard is mulched to the max to counter drought so I won't be calling for Government handouts if things get crispy over summer.
Had a good talk with the farmer sitting beside me on the plane about paddock gardens and wrote it up there and then. I'll post that tonight so if you hadn't heard about them before, as I hadn't, you might be interested.
Still thinking about my Wellington trip as it was so interesting, as much for the 'city experience' as the very good Making Good Decisions course I was on. Both were lots of fun and quite intense, for a country boy.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
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Yes it is very dry in Central. It's like February only it's still December, which is not good.
Looking forward to the paddock garden post, I am intrigued.
Very dry in Wanganui too Robert. The ground that was saturated in late September is now parched. Not being of an agricultural bent, my barometer is the unwatered golf course just up the road, and the conditons are what one would expect in February. If we don't get some decent rain before Christmas, it's going to be a very difficult summer.
This is a useful approach to dry - xeriscaping.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeriscaping
I'm going to explore the 'theory' then write something on it. We have the issue covered in my garden but there are less committed gardeners who could make some simple changes that should tide them over the summer. Many lawns will die and I'm not upset by that. Perhaps their owners will change their practices and go permaculture :-)
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