Garden Notes

Start to finish pictorial of our veggie garden

6.6 x 10.8 metres = [ 71.28 sqm ]

the 2 corner posts

chicken wire

the gate

concreting the wire

the gate post

sandstone entry

beds & mulch

netting on the top

finally finished

steel posts = 0
star pickets = 0
chicken wire = 0
gate = 0
timber gate post = 0
fencing wire = $40
fencing clips = $6.95
bird netting = $75.88
concrete = $50
wire tension =  $23.60

total = $ 196.43

Garden Notes

2011 is gone & 2012 is upon us who new the year would go so darn fast.

on the last day of 2011 we spent it down the back in the veggie garden.

all spring/ summer we have been plagued with butterflies & some may say how lovely, but it has not been lovely. when ever anything new has emerged from the ground they have been eaten to within an inch of their lives. we made a hoop net over 3 of the garden beds as a quick solution & it worked great but it didnt solve the problem for the rest of the garden. money has been really tight with me still out of work & A is on holidays for two more weeks, so we have been working on how to solve the problem without spending a lot of money. a while ago we purchased 2 bird net rolls for $16 each, we have managed to cover most of the roof area, we were a metre shot on one length. in just two days it has made quite a difference with lots of butterflies flying about above the netting.

for christmas A & i received a few hardware gift cards so today we will be off down the mountain to purchase two more bird nets to hopefully finish off this afternoon.

Veggie Yard

another day in the veggie yard, a few weeks ago we had a load of dirt, cow & mushroom mix delivered & today i used up the last of it for beds #6 & #7. bed 5 is the only one that has not been made yet.

bed #6 will be for the bush tomatoes.

the two pots of either side of the gate are for chilli plants.

this is bed #7 it is a corner bed, on one side i have planted bush beans & on the other sugar snap peas

if your wondering where all the mulch went from yesterday it is now the walk ways around the beds. it makes its much softer to walk/ kneel on & keeps grass & weeds down.

Veggie Garden

with no work i have plenty of time to get things done, esp all the things that keep getting put off

yesterday A' & i finally finished off the fencing around the veggie yard now miss Sally girl cant get in well fingers crossed.

i pretty much worked all day 9 till 4.30, needless to say i am a little tired now.

first up i built a trellis well not first as i had to cut the branches first & play tug of war with Sally Girl, she loves it when we prune the trees. sooo much fun to be had.

bed #1 is half purple beans & half yellow zucchini & down the centre because it likes shade is 2 rows of english spinach.
bed #2 is two types of beetroot
bed #3 is spring onions then globe onions & at the end is bok choy

bed #8 along the fence was just a huge pile of dirt that i moved today & is now home to sunflowers along the back. at the right hand end are 3 types of carrots, then 2 types of cucumber that will climb the flower stalks as well as attach to the wire fence & right at the end are the only 2 strawberry plants that are left after Miss Sally got a hold of them.
there are 3 trees in front of bed #8 a fig, peach & a lemon.

Veggie Garden

its been quite a while since we were down in the veggie garden, yesterday we had 2 m3 of soil /compost mix delivered & 4 garden beds went in. we did want raised beds but we just couldn't afford the timber so we will do without. i will be putting down mulch in the walk ways. we still have 4 more beds to go in over the next few weeks.

today i potted up a whole stack of seeds & as there is still a chance of frost i rigged up a kind of green house.

using the old trampoline, two large plastic bags & a few bulldog clips.

Blogtoberfest day # 3

Oops i missed the beginning of Blogtoberfest again

i hope to blog every day but you know how it is................

on the Veggie Yard front, the trench was dug & the wire was put up on half the yard & the gate post was added.

Sally Girl guarding the dirt pile, nice & clean as she had just had a bath that morning

didnt stay that way for long :o)

Trench dug & wire strung

the new gate, found it up the side of the house think it use to be window bars

concrete in the trench
old fence post to swing the gate from

as for the chooks, Miss Brown & Miss White decided they had had enough & jumped the fence & let the eggs go cold. better luck next time i guess.