House & Home The Vege Garden Thread 2018

Mum's got about 3 x that many - there's limoncello, lemon curd, lemon granita, lemon juice ice cubes but her tree's still full.

 

Trouble is we’re not great users of lemons. The tree was already here when we purchased the property. We’ve pruned it back to about a third of its original size as it’s in the wrong spot, too close to stonefruit trees. We were going to replace it in a different position but decided to cut off most of it then keep it narrow by trellising. Probably eventually something like this:

 

Self saucing lemon pudding is a fav at ours when we want something sweet (I don't like really sweet things)

Also...

 

We just lost watermelons and some pumpkins to bloody rats.

 

Incan superglue?

 

Just goes to show how much I know about that patch of dirt to the south of the Great Wall of Trumpsylvania.

 

Maybe they traded and imported tge glue?

 

In between rain and day tripping I finished the four garden bed structures. Next step is to fill with soil (will be a lot) and start work on border, mulched paths, netted hoop tunnel and irrigation system. I’m not much of a handyman but they didn’t turn out too bad.

The sleepers are ACQ treated so safe for veggie gardens:



These new garden beds above will be in addition the the existing ones below which are very close to the house:

 

Ordinary beds. Looked into wicking beds but too many maintenance issues over time for us. We’ll use a drip irrigation system to minimise water wastage. We’re also in a high rainfall area.

 

Geezzz, thought that was boot hill for a moment.

 

LOL, the veggie bed near the house was originally just a single herb bed where the rock wall is. It was supposed to be temporary until the beds down the back were done. But it mutated into a Three teir veggie bed with trellis at the back. Fortunately it meant only four veggie beds were required down the back rather than eight. Building anything on a sloping block is much harder than on a flat block.

 

luxurious looking garden beds, now i know where BKI dividends went to

 

Yes I did complain about the poor allocation of dividend income, better spent on craft beer. I was told that I would end up buried in one of the beds if I complained again.

But the future is looking good, the rivers of beer are about to start flowing again as the wife is getting back to brewing after last year’s mess with having to be up north looking after her very ill mother and her passing.

 

@Nodrog looks beautiful like high gloss finish quality surely in preparation for medicinal herbs planting as well

 

No just the photo and red pigment used to colour veggie sleeps (micropro). A pain to work with as they weren’t the usual standard size. 210 mm vs 200 mm wide, thickness varied from 50 to 53 mm, and some were shorter than 2400mm. Squaring to cut was also difficult as each side sometime produced a different result. I think whoever cut then at the mill must also have overconsumed too much beer.

Just as well I had enough for the above ground layers as the new batches of veggie sleepers at Bunnings we’re back to the correct standard size. I used them for the partial below ground infills.

 

Now the trick is: what to grow to yield the best return for your investments passively.

I thought of galics and gingers or organic edible flowers for salads.