It’s only late February but when the hazelnuts start dropping, the temperature dips and the leaves start to turn, my mind switches to autumn mode. Unlike in the northern hemisphere, the turn of the season isn’t heralded by the equinox, but instead falls on the first of the month. However, with a changing climate it’s more often than not down to the mood of the year.I’ve had a productive summer in the garden and even went as far as weighing a lot of produce to get an idea of how much food was coming off this small plot. It’s well into the hundreds of kilos, and not even at full capacity so it makes you realise just how much a small, carefully tended patch could produce in a year.
By the end of February, a lot of the old plants that have started to go to seed are also falling victim to aphids and white fly. This is where my feathered friends the silvereyes and fairy wrens come in, zipping through the fading greenery and snapping up a treat.
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