We bought a new ride-on mower last weekend. It was delivered on Monday and J had been impatiently waiting all week for me to return from Wellington to try it out. We spent the most of Saturday in our paddock taming the grass. Hopefully in future we will spend less time mowing!!!! J certainly enjoyed the experience… it is his first ‘car’. I could not have done the work on my own. It needs the two of us to manage the property!!!
The paddock is about 2.5 acres in size. It is bordered on one side by 200 small Christmas trees which the previous owners (POs) planted as a cash crop. I think J will have to manage the selling of these in his early school summer holidays in the two weeks before Christmas!
We also have 24 pine trees in the paddock. They were planted by the POs to harvest the pine-nuts to sell to health food shops. Before they ripen we will need to research how to deal with pine-nuts!!!!! …. something to Google!!!!
We also have fruit trees on the house side of the paddock… they may be apples or pears or peaches. They are in bloom at the moment but no leaves out yet. I expect we will have to wait until fruit appears before we know what we have!
So in the middle we have about 2 acres of grass… J is keen to keep sheep or goats or calves or alpacas or pigs but they all require time and management… I would prefer to plant the area in fruit trees instead but somewhere along the way we will have to compromise. One of his friends is a boy from Birmingham, England. That family are keeping sheep in their paddock so there is a lot of pressure to replicate that situation!
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