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This bed once had apples and feijoas trees on the south portion and an old compost heap over the northern end of it. This was all when it was part of the chook run and the neighbours oak tree was lower in height (it’s since been lifted, which is good for the vege garden). It measures 3.7 by 7metres and has a high organic matter content after all the years of neglect. It was sown to clover and has been left to self sow. We’ll see how the idea plays out but one thing I can say; this wet summer has kicked the clover on so that it’s competing with the peppers and egg plants – so much for dying back under the hot summer sun! (It’s not much of a problem considering the alternatives though).
This is the central one of the six main beds in the backyard and for rotation purposes can be counted as one.
Generic description of the backyard beds:
The soil is sandy loam which is a pleasure to work and weed but a devil to keep from blowing away and stop from drying out. Always hungry for organic matter and if left to its own will grow the best stinging nettles this side of the black stump, followed closely by asthma weed.
All these backyard beds are surrounded by concrete pavers and border stones which are set upon either, 30 year old paths, or the existing sand that has been lightly compacted (body weight only). If they move too much we’ll re-lay them. We originally wood chipped the paths and raked the edge of the beds, or lined them with wooden planks. These methods proved less than satisfactory in managing, keeping the sand from finding its way into the living area, or just blowing away (all that fine added goodness, never the raw sand!). This time around we went for broke and paved them all, this allows the mulch to be put where its most needed and the paths managed easier – easily cleaned, easily moved.
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Plantings
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Tomatoes - Various
Solanum lycopersicum
Established on 24 Sep 09 Advanced seedlings from Nyaka. These are the in...
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Tomato (Riesentraube)
Solanum lycopersicum
Sown on 18 Jul 09
- 4 journals
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Tomato (Heirloom five colour)
Solanum lycopersicum
Sown on 18 Jul 09
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Tomato (Red Fig)
Solanum lycopersicum
Sown on 18 Jul 09
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Tomato (Harbinger)
Solanum lycopersicum
Sown on 18 Jul 09
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Tomato (Camp Joy)
Solanum lycopersicum
Sown on 18 Jul 09
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Tomato (ES58)
Solanum lycopersicum
Sown on 18 Jul 09
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Tomato (Principe Borghese)
Solanum lycopersicum
Sown on 18 Jul 09
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Onion (a mixed bag) AVAILABLE FOR SWAP
Allium cepa var. cepa
Sown on 08 Mar 09 I'm trying something different this time. I've ...
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Comments
TropicanaRoses wrote:
All of the time that we have conversed back and forth, I have never visited your gardens!! Sorry about that! You have a fantastic, asthetically pleasing, productive looking garden. I love it. You have likely been gardening in the same space for some time? I didn’t have time to read your overview. I am in the beginning stages with all of my beds, and still getting ideas for improvement, both with the designing, and with the plants that I wish to grow. Hopefully one day we will stop moving about, and I can have a good garden. The one that I had this year was more of an experiment for me since I have never done anything on such a grand scale. Your gardens give me inspiration!! Hopefully I will be able to make some changes for the better next year. (If we stay here!!) We actually looked at some rentals in VIC last night, just for fun. :) We are both fascinated by Australian culture. :)
Posted on 02 Oct 09 (about 1 months ago)
graibeard wrote:
:) It gets like that and apologies aren’t needed. This garden cleanup is still ramping up, while we’ve been here a long time the backyard has been many things (you’ll have to read the ramble – Uhm, overview!) This particular revamp sees it completing the cycle with a vengeance – it’s now all veggie garden.
No doubt your time will come, even if at times it seems like it never will.
You appear to have a fairly good setup and each time you get to redo a garden it’s another one under your belt, a learning exercise that you can reapply later. It also seems that your neighbours are helpful and garden orientated and that counts for a lot.
It’s a long move to Oz! You must be getting restless.
Posted on 03 Oct 09 (about 1 months ago)
TropicanaRoses wrote:
More like hubby is restless. He likes to move, explore, etc. But he is beginning to get a glimmer of what it would be like to stay in one place and take trips instead of pulling up and moving. He is getting a little tired of dragging all the furniture everywhere that we go, but he got tired of leaving it all behind a long time ago. Starting from scratch is even less fun!! So the long and short of it is, if we are going to travel, we have seen the Grand Canyon and the edge of Yellow Stone, we have seen Mount Rushmore, we saw that on our honey moon fifteen years ago. We would like to travel abroad for, maybe 5-10 years. Australia is as good a place as any to start with, but we also were sort of half joking about it, as we can’t see how it would work out at this point. I think that what we do depends on if he is hired here or not, and how large the tax refund is. :)
Posted on 04 Oct 09 (about 1 months ago)