Garden Plan
So for those of you not following we are building a large vegetable patch down the back so we can grow some more of our food.
We aim to grow foods we eat and that are expensive to buy / need to be fresh as well as create an area for bees and insects. Thinking Gingers, capsicum, tomato, chili, cucumber, all the lovely herbs and salad greens and so much more.
We have a big water tank- we need to fix the spout and the pump at the bottom.. but its full.
We are building compost piles in each of the beds as they are built to reduce the soil we need to buy and also use our garden and kitchen scraps in a better way.
We have a worm farm which i will show you in the bottom photos
We will be ripping out the stones and trees in the back slope and planting ground cover flowers or say watermelon down there. not veges as such...
FLOOD SET BACK
as many of you know QLD was under a sea of water for a week
so we had a pause on works for a while to deal with that. Thankfully we did not flood. in 2011 we had water to the roof!!! we moved after that to this house that is much higher!!!!
UPDATE on the beds
as you can see my husband has been working hard to build the beds. they are nearly complete.
I have also taken out many of the stones.. washed and sieved and cleaned them.
This has been a big job... but will be well worth it. We need to get the soil out of the stones. better for drainage and less weeds for sure. it has been a MASSIVE job
This job is the one that I did while my husband builds.
COMPOST FILLING
to fill these, we have no soil in the property to use. So we are CREATING OUR SOIL by building compost into each bed as they come available. The first bed is already 1/2 fill with compost. This will cut down our costs of bringing in soil a lot. we are using cardboard boxes, grass clippings, food scraps and garden scraps to make the pile. Its doing VERY well. Husband is very please. a few weeks in and it is well composted.
compost needs to be damp and have a good mix of brown (leaves and straw and cardboard (without print) ) and green. grass clippings and vege scraps
AROUND THE PATCH
the rest of the garden is small and in pots at the moment while we wait for these beds to be done. That being said, we still eat food from them every night. The cucumbers are prolific as are the chilis and we use the herbs and greens most nights as well which is fantastic for sure.
HERE ARE A FEW PHOTOS
These are the gingers i planted from the kitchen scraps :-)
I love ginger and it will feature heavily in the garden beds!!
My tomatos that were just a seed in a compost bag... lol... i didn't plant them at all... but they ae growing... can't wait to see what they actually are...
Ok bit random... naughty critter eating my onions...
The corriander has bolted... sigh... always does in the heat..
something nibbling the line tree... but its getting more healthy now ive tried to take care of it!
My lovely curry leaf tree that i simply can't kill .. lol... beleive me this thing has died in the pot at least twice.
some herbs
WORM FARM - don't look if you don;t like little wormlings
Their favourite food appears to be cardboard and watermelon
which they seem to live off exclusively.. they ignore everything else... selective little buggers. lol
CONCLUSIONS
thanks for reading folks. I'm looking forward to be planting the gardens in spring. we are coming up to winter here so we have a little while. I would like to be able to put some nitrogen fixing peas or something in for winter, so we will see how we go getting the beds ready to go.
its been an adventure.
Dam I really love these beds. Good luck with them,
Lol... thank you... yes i'm hoping they will be good.
we HAVE done a video showing how he made them.. but its not finished :-)
I'm hoping we can get lots of veges and flowers from them :-)
Nice best of luck, hope to see the video soon
Wow you are doing a great job. Good luck to you @blingit
many thanks
tomorrow is a garden day.... hopefully its not as hot as today or i will melt by 10am..lol
I hope the sun was not too much for you . Stay safe awesome and alive
Thank you... all inside now.. it was very very hot.. by 11 am it is just too much.
we did have one incident with a snake that tried to eat us.. but we are all good.
australia, we have many of these...
lol
Thank God you are safe. Stay safe awesome and alive
That is sooooooo much work lol…. Good job sis
You so funny girl... lol...
yep when you gonna actually join HIVE... come on... actually do something proper.. lol
These garden beds, these are so well designed. Is he making them custom or from a kit? This is almost exactly what type of beds I would want except I am not sure if they would be strong enough to support weight if someone were to sit on the edges.
Hi @Creativetruth , You could tap dance on these if you wanted! The vertical design of the corrugations provides all the strength. Some of the other designs I looked at had the corrugations going horizontally. These would have required the wood to do all the work (and more of it) as far as strength goes, and better carpentry. This approach was easier and stronger!
Hi Love,
No he made the design himself. we wanted hardwood trim and the corrugated iron. I'm not sure sitting on them would be the best plan. but we will see.. we may need another vertical strut.. but not sure yet. We looked at a few designs on the web and came up with this.
hopefully it works.
thanks for your comment i told my husband people like them
Wow @blingit it sure looks like you have big job ahead, I like the way you've done your beds, green vegetables and herbs are getting so expensive, we're also trying to get our green house sorted, been having a lot of rain here in South Africa.
Good luck with your project, looking good so far.thanks for sharing.
Hi, thanks for stopping by
yes... so expensive... i can't pay $20/week for herbs for cooking.. totally wasteful. so easy to grow them in the right season of course.
all the best with your garden. Do share it :-)
Sarah
Agree far to expensive, busy on a post at the moment love this community, people seem to communicate with each other here which I like.
Happy gardening.
RABBITS lol
the photos of the compost pile did NOT work... grrrr
here it is...
as you can see we have lots of volume in here already!!!
That flooding to the roof is scary, glad you relocated to a higher location. By the way, I love the beds, can't to see them on use. Good afternoon!
Thanks, yeah it was pretty dim as we had insurance but they REFUSED to pay.. so we lost all our stuff...
but moved now.
yes the garden beds should be awesome
thanks for stopping by
You're welcome (^_^)
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