Russell
Member since: Sep 11 | Last seen: Dec 11 | Years gardening: 20
After 3 years of working away from home and only being able to do stuff on the weekends, I finally have a job near home, and can get into the garden every day.
So, I’m into it with a passion, which will hopefully continue as I combat the local problems :-
- Located in Maryvale, Queensland.
- Always seem to be fighting dry conditions and poor soil
- Spent 2 years trying to establish an Orchard, while the cows kept eating it
- Thistles seem to be the only thing that flourishes here!!
Now I’m bent on having an ‘if it isn’t useful, I don’t want it’ type garden. Which means mostly edibles. Time will tell how the plan goes…
Gardens
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Zone 9a This is a garden bed we setup when we first moved in, in the retaining wall at the back of the house. it’s been growing well, but needs a mak...
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Zone 9a This is a 1.1 × .9 × .3 galvanized iron raised bed, purchased form Mitre 10 on sale for $49 in September 2011. The bed was filled with 3 ...
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Zone 9a A place for trees to provide some shade for the chooks, and maybe down the track, some forage for them as well.
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Zone 9a The area originally planned to be the Orchard, but in which most things died. Some TLC may revive it.
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Zone 9a This is the area around the biocycle outlet, which hopefully we can get rid of the Thistles from.
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Zone 9a This is the first Square Foot Garden we setup, in the back corner of the house yard. I originally made the sides with some thin Plywood I had, but ...
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Zone 9a This is our second bed, next to the clothes line. It was setup at about the same time as the first bed, and once again has been trampled by the dog...
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Zone 9a Square foot garden without physical dividers, and has some garden soil as well as coconut fibre and manures, so not quite true square foot garden.
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