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phillippa's Backyard garden

Garden Type: Backyard | Sun: Full Sun | Soil: Sand I'm Organic!

We live in a tiny house on stilts on a big, rectangular block of land. Our house is built on an old sand works behind some national park next to the coast. Our garden gets full sun until around mid afternoon, when the shadow of the house starts to creep across the yard. I don’t think we get frost. I think that’s because we are so close to the coast. Our garden is certainly warmer than the gardens of any of our Sydney relatives.

We’ve lived here four years. The soil has improved over time as we have grown things and added lots of manure and mulch. We grow lots of things. When we arrived there were a few NSW Christmas bushes, some stunted azaleas and a mango tree covered in sooty mould.

After an initial crazy idea to plant trees wherever we felt like, we realised we needed some garden beds. Garden beds have made it easier to mow and mulch. Our garden is infested with Dollarweed. Our plants’ natural enemy is Fergus, our one year old Labrador. Our garden is messy and overgrown and sometimes frustrating in its ability to get away from us.

We mostly plant vegetables, fruit and herbs but we also have some flowers, which our daughter likes to pick to make posies. Things that have grown well in our garden are potatoes, tomatoes, capsicums, eggplant, chillies, zucchini, corn, pumpkin, olives and mulberries. We killed more than one avocado before we found the right spot for them.

We have a watering tank and compost bins.

We blog about our garden at The Veg’able Patch.

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Plantings

Plum

Prunus domestica
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Rosemary

Rosmarinus officinalis

Planting Out in Sep 2008 Many varieties planted in different parts of th...
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Pineapple Guava

Feijoa sellowiana
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Lavender

Lavandula angustifolia
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Macadamia

Macadamia integrifolia
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Sage

Salvia officinalis

Planting Out on 07 Sep 08 A herb to cook with, plus it's beautiful!
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Sunflower 'Yellow Pollenless'

Helianthus annuus

Sown on 31 Aug 08
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Chokoes

Sechium edule

Transplanted in Aug 2008 I've planted two under a trellis that runs alon...
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Nasturtiums

Tropaeolum majus

Sown in Aug 2008
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Plum

Prunus domestica
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Blood Orange

Citrus sinensis

Planting Out in Sep 2007
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- Unhappy
Passionfruit

Passiflora edulis

Planting Out in Sep 2007
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Feijoa (Pineapple Guava)

Feijoa sellowiana

Planting Out in Sep 2007
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Common Guava

Psidium guajava

Planting Out in Sep 2007
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Strawberry Guava

Psidium cattleianum

Planting Out in Sep 2007
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Kaffir Lime

Citrus x hystrix

Planting Out in Sep 2006
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Finger Lime

Citrus australasica

Sown in Sep 2004
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Mulberry

Morus nigra

Planting Out in Sep 2004
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Lemon 'Eureka'

Citrus x limon

Sown in Sep 2004
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Lime 'Tahitian'

Citrus latifolia

Planting Out in Sep 2004
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Orange

Citrus sinensis

Planting Out in Sep 2004
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Mandarin

Citrus reticulata

Planting Out in Sep 2004
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- Neutral
Cumquat

Citrus japonica

Planting Out in Sep 2004
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Nectarine

Prunus persica nucipersica

Planting Out in Sep 2004
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Nectarine (the one that Teddy planted)

Planting Out in Sep 2004 Planted as a single stick. It's the happiest pl...
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Apricot

Prunus armeniaca

Planting Out in Sep 2004
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Asparagus

Asparagus officinalis

Sown in Sep 2004 Planted a small asparagus plant in September 20...
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Bay

Laurus nobilus

Planting Out in Sep 2004
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Apple

Malus domestica

Planting Out in Sep 2004
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Loquat

Eriobotrya japonica

Planting Out in Sep 2004 Two of these.
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Beach Cherry

Eugenia reinwardtiana

Sown in Sep 2004
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Mango (that came from Teddy)

Mangifera indica

Transplanted in Jun 2004
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Olive

Olea europaea

Planting Out in May 2004
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Avocado

Persea americana

Grown from a seed. There are 3 or 4 more at var...
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Figs

Ficus carica

For a while it seemed Teddy would plant one of ...
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Mango (that came with the house)

Mangifera indica

Was covered in sooty mould and had been badly p...
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