The orchard at Tingiringi

It may not look very big, but I've just spent four days netting plums, pears, apples, quince and peach trees. We call it the Taj Mahal x 12 of Parma Road. Julie calls them the ghosts of Parma Road. All of this is necessary because of the bower birds, galahs, white cockatoos, king parrots, crimson rosellas, eastern rosellas and assorted other small birds who do not consume the fruit, but take bites from every one. I have used 50 metres of polypipe, 400 pegs, 100 bricks, 20 old pairs of tights and 40 metres of bird netting. You can see Vernon's bottle watering system on the right.