Today I woke up pretty late as I didn't get to bed before midnight. Struggled up to the nursery to get everyone wet, and was then pleasantly suprised to see that the corn that Bach planted last friday had come up. No carrots yet though...
Then I tried to get on with the water system, and besides a few interuptions managed to get it happening by about 2pm. One of the interruptions was one of those classic Permaculture things, where you set out to do one thing and you get led away on various interelated tasks... I had to prune back a lot of pidgeon peas just to be able to roll the pipe out, and there was some nahiku grass popping up that I really had to pull before I did the chop and drop in that area... so, I guess in effect I spent about an hour weeding and mulching the two Bambusa oldhammii's in that part of the windbreak... after the water system was in place I gave those two plants a good drink too. They are just starting to leaf out, am expecting some good action from them in the next few months...
After lunch I brought in two loads of mulch... I could probably rake up about another load or two from what I cut the other day before the steering on the tractor went out, but it will be tough raking as it was the first very rough cut... oh my god. I can feel a lower back spasm coming on. Oh for a 50 hp tractor with an 8foot landscaping rake. sigh....
I also mulched a couple of the Inge's over on the other side of the gulch. They and the Jacarandas I planted in there, well, back in November I suppose, they are doing well...

I thought today, about making metal plant tags and inscribing some sort of code on them which would identify when they went in the ground. It would be nice to compile some kind of research database like that as we have discussed before. Of course, it is yet another task, and it is hard enough getting them in the ground, and fed and watered and mulched, without adding the whole extra dimension of being a database to boot... Still, we should give it a go...

The fork and the rake fell off the back of the truck on the second load out of the gulch, so on my way back I took the ladder down to the secret mango tree. It will be such a cool little hideaway I tell you...

I drained the 50 gallon tank on Geoff's roof to the three Guaduas I transplanted the other day after that, in the meantime I rode the purple cruiser back and forth to the black sapote's where I dropped in some pidgeon peas in rings around them so that we have a nice mulch crop for those lovely diospyros trees...

So, tomorrow there are so many things that I would love to try to achieve, but who knows what we will actually get done. I am afraid to make a list because it would be ridiculous.