No, I didn't go to Festival this year...
Here's what I did instead...
In the middle of the backyard was a nasty wonking great Banksia Rose and a large kennel.
The boys pulled that down Labour Day weekend, and it slowly dispersed itself over the backyard.
We had this bright idea where we were going to mulch it up for the garden beds, but even once we'd left it for a week to dry out it turned out to not be such a great idea. The damn thing was so spindly and interconnected we decided in the end to just hack it up and take it to the tip.
The plan, you see, was to build four 6 metre long by 1 metre deep raised vegetable beds, so I can grow my veg without having to spend quite so much time bending and crawling around on the ground.
We used cypress posts, six per bed, and non-arsenic treated pine support braces to build a basic shape.
The 'walls' of the beds are built from scavenged corrugated sheeting, gods bless hard rubbish collection. teflon2000's sister lives a bit further out into the country, in Chook Shed Territory, so scavving their hard rubbish turned up around 23 metres of sheeting. Score.
The finished boxes. They'll be filled with a layer of weedmat, then crushed rock for drainage, a mixture of local soil and compost, and probably pea straw or possibly sugarcane mulch on top. That's tomorrow's job :)
Of course, I say what I did instead, but obviously, what I really mean is what teflon2000 did instead, while I mostly wandered around taking photos of things, and occasionally holding onto things and generally trying to pretend I'm useful. But you know, same thing from a distance ;)
In the middle of the backyard was a nasty wonking great Banksia Rose and a large kennel.
The boys pulled that down Labour Day weekend, and it slowly dispersed itself over the backyard.
We had this bright idea where we were going to mulch it up for the garden beds, but even once we'd left it for a week to dry out it turned out to not be such a great idea. The damn thing was so spindly and interconnected we decided in the end to just hack it up and take it to the tip.
The plan, you see, was to build four 6 metre long by 1 metre deep raised vegetable beds, so I can grow my veg without having to spend quite so much time bending and crawling around on the ground.
We used cypress posts, six per bed, and non-arsenic treated pine support braces to build a basic shape.
The 'walls' of the beds are built from scavenged corrugated sheeting, gods bless hard rubbish collection. teflon2000's sister lives a bit further out into the country, in Chook Shed Territory, so scavving their hard rubbish turned up around 23 metres of sheeting. Score.
The finished boxes. They'll be filled with a layer of weedmat, then crushed rock for drainage, a mixture of local soil and compost, and probably pea straw or possibly sugarcane mulch on top. That's tomorrow's job :)
Of course, I say what I did instead, but obviously, what I really mean is what teflon2000 did instead, while I mostly wandered around taking photos of things, and occasionally holding onto things and generally trying to pretend I'm useful. But you know, same thing from a distance ;)