And it just gets hotter!

We have had a few 40°c days around here with good amount of humidity, enough to burn of any self-respecting plant at ground level let alone a seedling!

Our New Year heralds the start of a new, bigger garden for us! Yippee!

spot X for new garden

We have built a new garden because we just couldn’t grow enough food in the old one. It is a bit more than 3 times bigger in area, on a slight slop and in a north-west facing position.

onlookers checking out the 'digger'

Making it was a big job as we had to remove a half dead tree with an excavator. While the excavator was there, we had the garden area marked out and got the guy to “scratch” the ground down about 100mm then after all that was done added a good layer of cane mulch and manure then more cane mulch.

Put some wood sleepers around the edge to contain the whole thing, built the fence by using most of the old stuff from the old garden.

now the hard work begins...

Is kind of neat having a blank canvas to work with, and important to get the layers right, once its moist we can plant and cultivate parts of the garden, at least the micro-organisms will start to work with some moisture.

On the weekend we installed the irrigation this was easy, we just used “knockers” - more about this in a future blog.

So new garden is ready to go but nothing is planted because the earth that we worked up is so dry deep down, so once we get good rain – we’ll be out there after the first shower!

front garden posts from trees
we cut down in our backyard

starting to come together, just the fencing to go

In the meantime we haven’t just been watching the heat - I've been busy planting some seeds into seedling trays that will save some time after it rains - presuming that happens in the next month…