Gardening

We've been rebuilding our rear garden so it can be useful and productive. We're also trying to follow some of the principles of Permaculture :-)

A gardening update and catching rain

Just realised I haven't done a gardening update in a while. We didn't do much planting last summer - a combination of events, but with a bi

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Jamie Whitehorn

Compost Bins Lids - Part 2

Managed to get more work done on the compost bins this weekend. It's getting important to get as much done as possible now. Come October we

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Jamie Whitehorn

Compost bin lids

This week we're building lids for the compost bins to keep the weather off the compost - but ironically inclement weather stopped us from co

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Jamie Whitehorn

Putting fronts on the composting bins

Spent a very pleasant Sunday afternoon working on the composting bins. It's nice to be able to make at least some progress on them each week

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Jamie Whitehorn

Plans for our composting bins

Now the raised beds are finished ... or at least ready for soil ... and we've tidied up the bottom of the garden, it's time to think about t

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Jamie Whitehorn

Raised Bed Number 2.5

Another Saturday means another chance to work in the garden :-) This time we finished off the second raised bed by swapping the extra tall

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Jamie Whitehorn

The right tools and KISS (2nd Nov 2014)

This weekend was better. Thankfully payday was midweek so we were able make a trip to the local reclamation yard, J. Brant Reclamation Ltd,

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Jamie Whitehorn

Nothing to show

Another weekend but this time we didn't manage to make any progress in the garden :-( We're a bit disappointed about this as we're trying t

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Jamie Whitehorn

Saturday Gardening, Fettling, & Mushroom Bed (Part2)

We pressed on with the garden today. First item on the menu was to cut the remaining sleeper for the base of the second raised bed. It was t

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Jamie Whitehorn