Lately I have not been on here too much, a few reasons for that, firstly I have been busy with other things and also because I feel like the garden isnt doing too much at all.
The veggie patch is almost completely dead, there is a couple of silverbeat plants struggling along still and some garlic chives, the pumpkin vines are still alive but only of their own accord, after only producing male flowers they forfeited the right to be watered.
I have been busy setting up watering systems to keep other plants alive. A simple system out the front with 19mm poly pipe laid on the ground and screw-in sprinkler dripper thingys screwed in at regular intervals. Since using this for the last couple of weeks the agapanthus are starting to look healthy again and are even starting to flower.
During the last few heat waves they took a pretty big beating, and as you can see there is quite a bit of dead foliage, but I have purposely left them looking untidy (no not because I am being lazy) because it offers them some protection from the heat.
Yesterday I got out into the backyard and set up a similar watering system for the fruit trees, and tested it out last night, it all works now it will just be a matter of time to see if the trees like it better than the handheld hose system. (personally I think it is much more efficient to give them a slow soaking watering that to flood them with the hose, often breaking their little levy banks)
During the week I put in an order to Greenharvest. My original intention was to buy some lucern seeds to grow as a greenmanure/claybreaker/mulch/fodder plant, but then figured if i was going to pay $5 postage I might as well order a few more things so I have ordered some clover to act as a living mulch, and also some woolly pod vetch and a few other seeds from their vegetable seed range.
The veggie patch is almost completely dead, there is a couple of silverbeat plants struggling along still and some garlic chives, the pumpkin vines are still alive but only of their own accord, after only producing male flowers they forfeited the right to be watered.
I have been busy setting up watering systems to keep other plants alive. A simple system out the front with 19mm poly pipe laid on the ground and screw-in sprinkler dripper thingys screwed in at regular intervals. Since using this for the last couple of weeks the agapanthus are starting to look healthy again and are even starting to flower.
During the last few heat waves they took a pretty big beating, and as you can see there is quite a bit of dead foliage, but I have purposely left them looking untidy (no not because I am being lazy) because it offers them some protection from the heat.
Yesterday I got out into the backyard and set up a similar watering system for the fruit trees, and tested it out last night, it all works now it will just be a matter of time to see if the trees like it better than the handheld hose system. (personally I think it is much more efficient to give them a slow soaking watering that to flood them with the hose, often breaking their little levy banks)
During the week I put in an order to Greenharvest. My original intention was to buy some lucern seeds to grow as a greenmanure/claybreaker/mulch/fodder plant, but then figured if i was going to pay $5 postage I might as well order a few more things so I have ordered some clover to act as a living mulch, and also some woolly pod vetch and a few other seeds from their vegetable seed range.
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