May Field Day - Planting @ Lower Tintara Field Day

May Field Day

When: 9.00 am, Sunday 4 May

Where: Lower Tintara Vineyard, 94 Kays Rd, McLaren Vale

What: In the Field of Opportunity, it’s Planting Time again

Hi Ho Biodiversiteers,

Lest You Forget, It’s Time to prepare for our May Field Day, which is gonna be held at John Hardy’s Lower Tintara Vineyard at 94 Kays Rd, McLaren Vale. If you were there, you’ll remember it from our last visit. If not, despair not, instructions follow below.

This month, by special arrangement with They On High, we’re going to hold a rain dance, so I’m just down in the studio now putting together the soundtrack.

I Can’t Stand the Rain (against my window)… Nope. Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head… Nope. Rain, Rain, Go Away… Nope. Have You Ever Seen the Rain… Nope. Who’ll Stop the Rain… Nope. High Water (for Charlie Patton)… Nope. If It Keeps On Raining, Levee’s Gonna Break… Crikey. A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall… Ah, now we’re talking. A song for the times…

Sad but true, he digressed…

Maybe we’ll stick with Rain, Rain, Come Again…

So, 9.00 am on Sunday 4 May we’ll be stomping hard and raising dust and calling for divine salvation. Buckets of Rain. Shelter From the Storm. Unless it rains the night before, in which case we’ll just get on with the planting that we’ve so meticulously planned. We have 1,938.5 plants to get in. There will be holes drilled, and plants to plant, mulch to spread and water to cart and hopefully still enough time to whistle while we work.

And there’ll be beer and wine and lemmingade to be drunken and snags and cauliflower to be eaten, but not until after Every Last Plant is perfectly planted and bedded in.

So don’t be late.

To get there, I’d drive. The driveway, when you do get there, is at the end of the windy bit of road just after Kay Bros and comes up suddenly on the right if you’re coming from McLaren Vale. There’ll be a Gigantic Yellow Cockatoo flapping in the breeze right there. Then follow the track and the signs down to our work spot near the creek.

On the sartorial front and what with the rain dance and all, I’d anticipate mud, so rubber boots on yer feet, a sou-wester on yer head and being ready fer dirt on yer knees. If it doesn’t rain, forget everything I just said.

Please don’t forget to click the button to register if yer intending to attend so we can be sure to order two more snags and another gallon of mustard.

See yer there. Gotta go and dust off my oilskin…

Cheers,

Geoff H