Spade Work
Cleaned up driveway damaged during the deluges of January. I finished this project in a little over a day.
Found all the sand and small gravel washed off into scrub at the bottom left-hand side of the driveway. Cleared a path through the lantana and tall grass, and then dug out the gravel. Would have been around seven loads of light gravel mix from in here.
Carted all the smaller, sandier gravel up to put on top of the larger gravel I scavenged from along and alongside the driveway and used as a base to fill holes.
At the end had a fairly smooth track with some small left over piles of gravel I later used to smooth things out after cars had compacted everything down.
Operation Market Garden
This is the garden I made recently from an overgrown patch that needed work. First I constructed a rock edging, then filled the bed, dug a hole into the clay and sunk the post. The pot was made from a piece of scrap corrugated iron I found. It took about half a day to get it (the pot) in the right shape and looking okay.
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After waiting a week or so for the rain to let up I gave up and spent a rainy day trudging around in the mud finishing the job. First I secured the pot where I wanted it, then I sunk a stake diagonally so I could hang chicken wire from it to create a trellis for the climbing mandevillia I put in. Then went about arranging the plants where I wanted them and planting them. I put a stake and chicken wire fence around the edges of the garden to ward off the bush turkeys. Then I put chicken wire around the post for the star jasmine I planted at the back of the garden to climb up.
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And here’s the finished product. It’s actually a month or so since I did all this, so I’ll have to get some new pictures up. Everything but a few blue fescue grasses have survived the torrential drenching we’ve had for the last few months. There’s been a little bit more sun lately, so some of the plants have come along more since. I guess I’ll do another update soon and explain what plants are where and how they’re going.
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Run and Stumble 