A new home.

Today was a great day... too busy for photos but a great day.

T and Chris fixed my garden arches and they are now tentatively in their new homes awaiting clearing of the previous tenants; carrots and radishes going to seed.

B and I dug the hole for our old curry leaf tree which has been living in a plastic garbage bin for about 6 years!  So today the old lady got a new home complete with layers of Rooster Booster, Organic Slow release fertiliser and 'Blood and Bone'. mixed with layers of sandy soil.  We watered her in a lot and gave her a quick tidy up.  She then got a good bucket of worm tea to perk her up and make her feel better!  Fingers crossed the old girl recovers... she has become a part of our family being planted by Nanny from Grand-pop's garden which makes this tree a special link.  This Curry leaf tree survived a move from Northampton all the way to Hedland and the heat up there for 6 and a half years and then moved to Perth in the middle of winter!!!  A tough old stick... literally lol.

I glued together my half barrel worm farm with the poly pipe glue.  Filled it up and watered it only to find I hadn't tightened the base enough and it sprinkled all over my sneakers lol!  Fixed now (hopefully) and I will check it out in the morning, if all is good I will give a few of my red wigglers a new home :-)

B and I were a little upset on inspecting the hydroponics... we found Grand-pop's Super Tom's decimated by caterpillars... holes in many of the fruit that were looking so promising.  While I have been very tolerant up to this point, rarely spraying / using anything... this meant war!  Dipel has now been deployed all over my poor suffering tomatoes.

We picked about a dozen strawberries - small ones from the hydroponics and big fat ones from the self watering pot!

In the mean time Chris blower vac'd the back patio and cleaned up all the mess from all the deliveries and projects... it is really starting to take shape out there now!

Still on my to do list is a truck load of planting; digging the bramble berries into the ground before the summer heat; potting up the grape, fig, bay leaf and mango; concreting in the pavers for the new mint beds, expanding the front garden beds and planting out some of our potted plants.

Happy Gardening!

Sarah *hugs*

Day 1...

G'day,

I figure this will be a good way for family and friends to keep up with the boys latest project with me... It might be quicker than a phone call too lol

Well today has been full on but in a good way.  We had planned to get a few veges growing this year especially since our visits to Granddad's Garden, Grandpop's house and getting some of his heirloom seeds.  Recently we have been in contact with some local gardeners on a FB forum sooo this morning we met a lovely lady called Julie... the boys just loved her HUGE garden and have really taken to the idea of trading!

So in Julies wonderful garden between checking out the tadpoles, some wonderful natives and adorable dogs we traded some potting mix, curry leaf tree seeds and later an ornamental pear tree for some seedlings of oregano, thyme, lemon balm, strawberries and a birds-eye chilli bush which the boys keep daring Dad to eat lol.  We also got a mint and spearmint plant as well... and later a Ceylon Spinach which my boys are attempting to eat every leaf before we even get it in the ground!  So a big thank you to Julie for the inspiration and a place to begin with the boys!

So this is Day 1 before we began...

Well we got home and tried to figure out where to start in our garden that is all natives with some poor planting choices by the landscapers... the Ornamental Pear had to come out... less than 2 meters from next door it would have grown to about 10 meters... Mr Muscles Thomas decided to dig that out by himself!  He did a great job too!

 In the mean time Brandon and I separated out the strawberries and planted them in the planter and then Brandon planted out the Oregano, Lemon Balm and Thyme.
We then potted up all the mint plants as we don't want them in the garden bed!

 Then as Tom filled the hole where the Ornamental Pear was with a Sub-Lime Dwarf lime tree Brandon made a bamboo woven wall for Grandpop's Beans - Lazy Housewife beans to the rest of us... and some pea seeds from Julie...
As big Brothers do... as Brandon Planted... Thomas supervised and passed the seeds.... While we are looking here the "small bushes" near the bean poles?  Another plant we need to remove... 4 meters by 3.5 Meters?  Good one Landscapers, right next to the wall and lawn in a small garden!  ;-)

 

 Mr Muscles Brandon filled our trolley with potting mix so that I could spread some organic fertiliser which the dogs immediately decided to try and eat!  Then the filling of pots commenced including newspaper pots made by Thomas just like Grandpop!

 

As many pots as we could find were filled... and half are now seeded... 5 with Rainbow Chard, 2 with gorgeous Glory Lillies .

We popped in 7 of Grandpop's Super Toms, 1 Stevia... 3 rainbow chard's, 2 strawberry seeds and 4 baby strawberry plants (thanks Julie!).



Happy Gardening *hugs*

Sarah