FARM CALENDAR
January – Glorious weather!
- Yearlings are taken on long walks to prepare them for the Cape Premier Yearling Sale Book 1 at the CTICC
- Peach harvesting
- Lucern cut and baled
February & March – Hottest months (Our rooms all have fans or an aircon!)
- Grape harvest
- Yearlings are taken on long walks to prepare them for the Cape Premier Yearling Sale Book 2 in the Cape Winelands
- Lucern cut and baled
April – Perfect! Not too hot and not too cold
- Yearlings are taken on long walks to prepare them for the National Yearling Sales in Johannesburg
- Lucern cut and baled
- New lucern lands prepared and planted
May & June – Days are lovely, but the nights start getting chilly. The dining room and family room both have a fireplace.
- Yearlings are taken on long walks to prepare them for the KZN Yearling Sale near Durban
- General farm work
- Prepare soils for new plantings
- Orchards are pruned
July – Days tend to be warm, but it can get very cold at night, especially if there is snow on the mountains. All our rooms have a panel heater or aircon and a comforter or extra blankets are provided. We also provide wood to keep the log fires burning!
August - Days tend to be warm, but it can get very cold at night, especially if there is snow on the mountains. Tends to be the month with the highest rainfall (35mm for the month). All our rooms have a panel heater or aircon. We provide wood to keep the log fires burning!
- Start of the horse foaling season which lasts till about mid November
- Planting of new crops
September - Spring is in the air! The Karoo bushes are in full bloom. Weather can't make up it's mind!
- Start of the mares being sent to be covered (mated) by a stallion
- Foaling season continues in full swing
- General farm maintenance
- Lucern cut and baled
- There are usually an assortment of goats kidding, cows calfing and budgie eggs hatching as well!
October – Day and night temperatures start warming up
- Mares are being sent to be covered (mated) by a stallion
- Foaling season continues in full swing
- Vines are suckered
- Lucern cut and baled
November – Days & Nights are warm. The Jakaranda trees are in full bloom and Robertson is awash in lilac!
- Mares are being sent to be covered (mated) by a stallion
- Foaling season coming to an end
- Round about the 3rd week of November the early apricots (Supergolds) are ready for harvest
- Apricots exported
- Lucern cut and baled
December – Weather can be glorious!
- A few mares may still need to be covered
- The later ripening apricots are harvested
- Lucern cut and baled
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OUR WEATHER
Robertson, a mere 2 hour's drive from Cape Town, is the ideal getaway!
Drive through the N1 tunnel and you enter a different world.
Robertson only receives about 150mm to 255mm of rain per year and because it receives most of its rainfall during winter it has a Mediterranean climate. The sparse rainfall tends to be concentrated and disappears after an hour or so. Robertson very seldom experiences misty, miserable weather for days on end. In contrast Cape Town receives an average of 629mm of rain per year. June in Cape Town receives on average 108 mm across 13 days.
Robertson receives the lowest rainfall (8mm) in January and the highest (35mm) in August. The average midday temperatures for Robertson range from 16.7°C in July to 29°C in February. In contrast to the warm days, the region is the coldest during July when the mercury drops to 4.2°C on average during the night.
All our bedrooms have panel heaters or an aircon to stave off the cold. Comforters or extra blankets are also provided. There is nothing nicer than snuggling up in front of the fireplace at night.
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