Having worked out the layout of the pergolas I sent the brief off to a draughtsman (actually THREE, one they wouldn’t let my email server connect, another reckoned he was only licensed in/for SA finally someone accepted the job. I hope!
So started finalising the care plan for the trees: schedule of sprays, what goes into each spray and when to do the spraying. Trying to get all that to make sense and be clearly laid out got most of it done then got sick of it. So put the laptop away, put the dog in her harness (she hates it and I can understand that but too fucking bad!) and with Mum in tow (amazing how fast she can run tied to the towbar! Spry near centenarian!

) headed to mothra’s stamping ground, the Fleurieu Pen, specifically Yankalilla and Victor Harbor. No luck finding great books in op shops today
Will finish the sprays page tomorrow and start on the schedule of when the sprays should be done—it will have to be done by a local yocal so e v e r y t h i n g has to be spelled out clearly. Dear god I wish I was already there full time! The spray makeup and the schedule will be blown up from A4 to A3 and pasted onto a board in the garden shed.
One of the sprays is Surround™ kaolin, to spray on leaves if insects are eating leaves in summer. (It will also protect fruit from sunburn, coating it in a very fine white reflective coating.
ALWAYS wash your fruit & veg, even the “organic” ones: one of the ingredients of a horticultural spray is “effective microbes” incl streptomycin!