Amongst the emerging blossoms and a whole Lotta vegetables we all enjoyed our August meeting and International Kitchen garden day. Despite our little deviation towards Echuca we arrived and the Sun was shining, a beautiful nearly spring day.A few new faces, and some familiar ones, a HUGE thanks to Tania & Campbell for not only hosting the day, providing us with goodies, but also for their wonderful example of a self sufficient lifestyle. their farm not only provides a welcome relief of old fruit varieties to the GV, but they also exchange their masses of produce for milk, and other produce with their neighbours. We all left inspired, some with a big planting day ahead of them and some with new ideas.
For those of you that couldn't make i have put a few pics on our web page and Cam's advice on spur pruning for apples/pears. Campbell probably has one of the best examples of espaliered peaches, cherries, apples and pears around. 
Our next meeting will be Spring seedy Sunday, at Billabong Garden Centre on 28th @ 1:30. We will take stock of our collection to date and distribute our summer seeds for collection.
Till then, happy growing - Carley
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