Since I love raspberries, last year, instead of just leaving the canes in the open, we built a covered area for them to keep out the birds. The birds usually got most of the crop when they were in the open. This year, it’s been very different.    There has been a great crop, considering there [...]

Over the past ten to twelve years, the climate in Melbourne, where I live, has been slowly changing. During this time, it has become drier and we are considered to be in a drought. It is much hotter in Summer, our Winters are sometimes milder, but we don’t actually get much rainfall, especially in Spring, [...]