So yesterday was spent putting there bird netting back over the apple (front) and dual graft pear tree (back).
Thankfully we don't often need to redo it.
This is so that we get some of the fruit from these trees. When the rosellas or cockatoos find a fruit tree a message goes out and the entire flock will land and eat the fruit in one sitting. Actually mostly all they do, is pull the fruit off the tree and eat the unripe seeds inside, then disguard the rest.
They get the other fruit trees on the farm, if which there are at least another 3 massive unmanaged single graft pear trees and another 4 apple trees.
If i can stop them accessing the apricot, plum and prune trees, I will. I rather like those trees myself.
Then there are the 2 fig trees. They have yet to get doing. The temps have dropped too low for their liking so far this summer.
The fence behind has passionfruit growing over it.
We don't get much fruit from it yet.
The lemon tree is looking bare at the moment.
But it is covered in little green lemons the size of a grape. That's usual.
Then my 2 olive trees are flowering.
They're happy where they are, but the ants are unhappy. I've evicted them from their olive scale farming operation.
I thought I would try getting a little home-made olive oil this year!
But the grape vine seems to be taking the season off this year. Hopefully it will recover.
