weLL, after the earthquake I figured it was high time I planted out the 1 gallon legume trees that are left over in the nursery. they were actually overdue, but due to various constraints I have been holding back. the old thing of having all the ducks in a row... so, the bali salak palms were also looking like their roots wanted to come out of their pots, so I made the decision to pull up the scraps of pond liner which have been killing off the grass/acting as extra catchment just above Iruka's pond... This in itself was sort of a compromise, as it really was nice to have the extra runoff contributing to filling up the pond. but... it was time to get those plants out of their pots, you know?
Of course, the salaks need some shade for their first few years, and the calliandra's, flemingia's and sesbania's won't quite do it for another few months, so I messed around stringing up some shadecloth from the Java Plum to the worm farm guava tree, and in the end really only covered enough to be good for one salak... This morning it rained really hard, bowing down the trees and slacking down the shadecloth, so I am glad that I didn't go ahead and plant the other palms yet, which would have been buggered up.
I planted hundreds and hundreds of peanut cuttings, since I will be watering that zone a lot anyway, and the shadecloth should help them establish and with a grass kill right now, it only makes sense to strike while the iron is hot...