Hello Dear Reader,
Two empty pots that once held
Pineapple plants, I have left them there to deter the dogs from digging
I have slowly been winding my garden down, as a plant finishes (or dies back) I haven't been replacing it. I still have quite a lot of big plants in pots, like my fruit trees and such but the collection of smaller pots of herbs are getting smaller. The reason behind this, is that we want to rebuilt the garden from the ground up. Firstly we will remove the 6 Golden Cane Palms that have well and truly taken over, not they don't look lovely, you just can't plant underneath or around them. We then want to replace the fence, as it has warped and is showing it's age and replace it with a heavy duty fence where the bottom half will be a retaining wall and the top half a colourbond fence.
After these two very big jobs are done, we then want to build 4 to 6 large raised veggie garden beds out of treated timber or this idea, along the fence line incorporating the potted fruit trees to get them out of their pots and to give them some more room to grow. The idea behind the garden beds is that I want to do crop rotation to limit or stop the long list of pests and disease that my garden has always seem to be plagued with.
Two sick baby Pomegranates that I cut off the tree, on Sunday, this has happened before and the answer to this problem lies in spasmodic watering. I seem to let the pot dry our too much before swamping it with a good watering.
I want an abundant, edible garden like the one I see every Sunday on
Gardening Australia as well as on Brandy's blog
-The Prudent Homemaker. I want to limit pests and disease in my garden and from what I have been reading over the years, crop rotation is the way to go. The raised garden beds will need to be at least 60 cm high due to the little dogs (they are diggers) and because of the size of the root balls of the established fruit trees.
My Veggie garden. This is my only patch of earth, everything else is in pots. At the back is a Lime tree, the Red Paw Paw tree I grew from seed, an expansive Rosemary bush, my
$5 compost bin and to the left is a very healthy Sweet Potato vine, I have already harvested a couple of Sweet Potatoes from it.
This plan is still in its infancy, but as we have learnt over the years
if you don't plan you don't do. So with summer out of the way and some cooler weather finally starting to occur we will be planning and doing as much as we can in the next few months. So that when Spring is here I hope to be planting up in my new raised gardens.
You can see the stack of empty pots to the right of the picture. In this shot you can see a pot of parsley, chillies, spring onions and a young tomato plant that came up by itself next to the pot in the gravel so I dug it out and repotted it. The amazing Passionfruit vine has started flowering and fruiting again.
I have 4 pots of these Lantern Chillies and they are all bearing well, I can see another batch of
this Chilli Jam in the near future
A much healthier specimen of Pomegranate, lets see if this one make it. I am sure if this Pomegranate was in the ground it would be much happier
My 3 favourite trees-Lemon Myrtle at the back, Lemon tree and my
rescued Fig tree at the front
My garden helper, this is Lulu (she's the Mum), she never leaves my side when I am in the garden, such a sweet girl
Over to you, have you ever started a-fresh with a difficult garden? What would be your best advice?
Have a lovely day,
💗Fi
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