Again another record

It is amazing. In nearly five years of business with the Gerbera Farm we have never seen so many flowers. And good ones too. It really is all hands on deck for picking - especially on a Saturday. We pick on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, so the flowers have had an extra day to mature when we pick on Saturdays. It was planned of course as all four of us are generally able to pick, and process the flowers. There's no school on Saturdays so there's no rush to take children to school, and sometimes if we are really lucky they come and help.

At 7 years of age, and nearly 5, they are pretty good at most of the chores on the farm, but their issue is they have such short concentration spans. However, bribery with money does help!

They have their own flower stall and each week they manage to create over $120 for their money boxes.

We are lucky that we are able to sell most of the flowers - though there have been some discarded. What a waste! We have been able to sell some to the wholesalers, as it is still cold down south, and we have not had the flush of flowers that often occurs from the southern growers in Spring.

And the wholesaler likes ours too - which is good.

Spring is always a time when we have issues with bugs, and the little brown moth still inhabits the hothouses, so regular spraying is necessary to keep on top of that, and the Rutherglen Bug has appeared again, so today's spraying might demolish a few of them.

Each Saturday we record our pick on the whiteboard and three weeks in a row we have celebrated our record pick. It is rather fun - but exhausting, and now the hot weather is upon us, we will have to get up earlier to escape some of the heat. It really is hot, humid and exhausting when the sun comes up early with a lot of heat in it. And the sweat pours off us!

Luckily we enjoy it all for the most part.