Buds are bursting, bees are humming and the birds are flitting about excitedly. Spring is here!
For us here at Thistlebrook it means that it’s time to throw ourselves headlong into some urgent jobs like grafting next winter’s fruit trees, planting them out to grow on over summer, getting the garden ready for visitors. Then there’s lots of preparation and planting to do in the veg garden, articles to write, talks to prepare (I’m speaking at the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers in a few weeks – more details to come) etc, etc.
We had a fantastic winter bare root season with our nursery, so thanks to everyone who purchased trees. It’s really inspiring to see so many people getting interested in home grown fruit, and we hope your Thistlebrook trees perform well for you in the months and years ahead. Don’t forget that if you need any growing advice, please feel free to ask – I’m very happy to help in whatever way I can.
For those readers who haven’t purchased trees (or those keen to add to their collection), we have a brilliant spring offer to get you started. From now until the 17th of September, we’re reducing all of our remaining bare root trees to just $15 each (plus postage for mail orders). On some varieties that’s a saving of more than fifty percent, but we’d rather see them planted in your backyard than hang around the nursery for the next month. Stock is very limited and mail orders will close on the 17th, so please check the catalogue page of the website to see what we have remaining, and grab a bargain before it sells out until winter 2011.
Wishing you all the best for the season,
Justin
