First Post

This is a blog about my garden adventures, and is also a record of what happened in the garden because my diary skills are bad. Enjoy.

So the system is that I have two gardens, a summer one and a winter one. I have made an enclosure that will either be the chook run, or the garden, depending on the season. At the moment, I am setting up what will be the summer garden. The chooks are running around there at the moment, and will be moved on midway through August.

At the top of the garden is a pond made out of tyres (thanks cousin Dale), and Vinyl (thanks Led Zepplin...). The pond is to bring some extra kinds of creatures into the garden, such as frogs, birds, sharks etc. Inside the tyres will be the more perennial herbs and goodies. Might try and grow some water cress in the pond too.

The back of the yard under the Mango tree is our old bath tub perched precariously onto concrete blocks (thanks Dave), in which I am making compost, and hopefully growing a worm population. I collect sheep poo from my bro-in-laws house, and collect grass clipping from the park on the other side of the fence. Any other organic matter the chooks don't like go in here.

I also have a small greehouse on the side of the deck for rasing up some seedlings. This is watered by a pump from the washing water that is collected in a 20 gallon drum. I don't have a way of making seed rasing mix yet, so i'll have to buy some.

So that is the system. I'll post when I plant things, what is going well, what sucks, and muse on why things are the way they are.