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graibeard's Central West garden
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This bed used to have half the blow away (el’ cheapo garden shed) sitting on it, before the shed was moved north, under the oak tree where all the glass and assorted rubbish was buried. Apparently when the house was built there was no garbage collection service – but they had shovels! The rest of the bed had a pear tree, feijoas and several Monsterio Delicio (these were once indoor plants but were retired to the yard when we moved in) growing on it. It’s good soil with plenty of organic matter from the cold compost heap.
This is the bed west of central, and one of the six main beds in the backyard. For rotation purposes it 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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Comfrey (Bocking 14) - test 4
Symphytum x uplandicum
Established on 30 Sep 09 Test of 4
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Tomato (Roma VF) AVAILABLE FOR SWAP
Solanum lycopersicum
Sown on 28 Sep 09 Roma VF seeds from nyaka - Dismal germination w...
- 1 journals
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Tomato (Roma VF)
Solanum lycopersicum
Sown on 28 Sep 09 Two established Roma VF Tomatoes from nyaka - D...
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Tomato (Tatura Dwarf)
Solanum lycopersicum
Sown on 17 Jul 09
- 3 journals
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Tomato (Roma)
Solanum lycopersicum
Sown on 17 Jul 09
- 4 journals
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Tomato (Marglobe)
Solanum lycopersicum
Sown on 17 Jul 09
- 4 journals
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Tomato (Burwood Prize)
Solanum lycopersicum
Sown on 17 Jul 09
- 5 journals
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Garlic (Italian Red)
Allium sativum
Sown on 09 Apr 09
- 2 journals
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Garlic (Early Purple)
Allium sativum
Sown on 09 Apr 09
- 3 journals
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Comfrey (Bocking 14) AVAILABLE FOR SWAP
Symphytum x uplandicum
Sown on 26 Jun 08 This is a high yielding, sterile variety of Com...
- 12 journals
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Tree Dahlia
Dahlia imperialis
Transplanted on 31 Dec 84 We were given this many years ago, it lives up ...
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