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Prickles's Back verandah garden

Garden Type: Cottage | Sun: Dappled Sun | Soil: Combination | Established: 1988 | Organic

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This garden runs parallel to our back verandah.
To the north is the Herb Garden which I have fenced-off to keep our dogs away from the parsley which they took a liking to by rolling in it.

The southern boundary is an arbour-type structure of treated pine poles leading from the verandah up to an opening in the wall and which is called The Walk..

I need a cuppa.

An outdoor organic garden located in Castlemaine, Australia, Prickles's Back verandah garden currently contains 23 plants.

This is a Cottage garden that is known to be in USDA Hardiness Zone 9b. It has mainly Combination soil and receives Dappled Sun light.

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  • TropicanaRoses

    TropicanaRoses wrote:

    I am enjoying looking through your plants…this is the first time I have done so. I enjoyed reading your home page as well. It is difficult to know what people want to hear/read, and I also find it awkward at times to write about myself. :) Seems like you have a really nice set of gardens to me. And that raised bed thing? I was reading about it in my SFG book when we got it two years ago. It looks like it would work really well.

    An acquaintance was actually joking with me last Sunday…I was talking about putting in SFG boxes as he has a small yard and is renting, he said “what about a wheel barrow?? Then I could wheel it wherever the sun happened to be!” It was sort of funny, but upon reflection, I thought, with a few holes drilled in the bottom, an old wheel barrow would be great repurposed as a mobile garden. :) Well, now I am rambling. Enough!! :)

    Posted on 16 Mar 11 (about 2 years ago)

  • Prickles

    Prickles wrote:

    No, no, I think it is good to ramble whether you’re a rose or not (little gardening joke).

    Why not an old barrow? Only trouble is I still use all my old barrows. The bottoms do tend to rust out pretty quickly as I discovered when my #2 son was “looking after” my garden while I was in hospital. He left some mower cuttings in what we call a “builder’s” barrow and in a matter of just weeks there were holes in it!

    I have a wire frame mounted on wheels in which I sit my potted tomato and capsicum seedlings until it is safe to plant them out once the frosts have gone (we hope). The frame was a wire basket used for holding milk bottles and the wheels and axles were from a pram. Not the most glamorous of vehicles but adequate to wheel the seedlings out into the sunshine and then back under cover in the evenings.

    Talking about old wheel barrows, I am trying to get hold of a wheel from one – you know the old metal wheels not the pneumatic-tyred ones which always seems to be getting punctured or which perish after several seasons in the garden.

    Posted on 16 Mar 11 (about 2 years ago)

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Prickles

Prickles

Castlemaine

Australia

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