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Sat, Jun. 4th, 2016 06:12 pm
Entirely unrelated so it gets a new post, ( garden happenings! )
Today I borrowed Mum's car while she and Dad are in Bali, to go down to work and load it up with pallets! I now have six of them to turn into vertical gardens, which will mostly cover the fence. Something like that seems to be the most useful way of doing it, with an overall look something like this but not nearly so high. I like the wave of different coloured leaves, though. Wonder if cyclamens could go in a vertical garden, they have pretty leaves as well as BRIGHT flowers. I also have dreams of doing this, but first things first.
Also of note, the baby beginnings of my baby's tears lawn. These are from two weekends ago when Mum and I went to Aunty Meredith's and pulled up over a square metre's worth of the stuff, so it ended up with that sort of coverage over the ( whole back yard )
My tiny fuzzy green army :D Today I took those two green crates around to a local plant nursery, where it grows aaaall over the place and they treat as a weed. Filled them to the top with enough to completely line the edge of the concrete to about 20-30cm from the edge. This stuff grows on rocks, so I'm anticipating it'll cover over the concrete, too. How long it'll take to grow I have no idea, whether I should expect a lush carpet by summer or what, but I'm guessing it'll do sod-all over winter. And it was all free! For some context, Bunnings sells them for $8.63. That little pot is about the size of each of the little patches I've scattered around from Aunty Meredith. By Bunnings' estimates I've got hundreds of dollars worth of the stuff, probably over a grand, without paying a cent. And the pallets were free, too, thanks boss-man :D After spending thousands for the tank and general cleanup, this is super-refreshing.
Tomorrow, buy supplies for the vertical gardens, see about getting started on at least some of the construction. I need to sand the pallets back, pry off the back planks so I can then line the inside with garden fabric/plastic/something (research that tonight) and nail it all back together. Six times. This is going to take a few weekends to get ready for dirt. Oh, and star droppers or something to keep them upright, because there's no way that fence is going to be strong enough to hold these things up. They're already heavy when there's no dirt in them.
There was one pallet I wish I could've gotten, probably about twice the size of the regular ones, and because the slats go across it, it'd mean it'd stand straight up a bit over two metres. How cool would that be? I could've put it right down the other end as a privacy screen down there. Alas, the thing weighed a goddamn tonne, and even if I had been able to lift it, it wouldn't have fitted in Mum's car. Still, it'll still be there at work, so if I'm enthusiastic about it in X months time, we could rent a trailer and pick it up that way.
asdghalks I'm so excited. THINGS ARE HAPPENING!
Today I borrowed Mum's car while she and Dad are in Bali, to go down to work and load it up with pallets! I now have six of them to turn into vertical gardens, which will mostly cover the fence. Something like that seems to be the most useful way of doing it, with an overall look something like this but not nearly so high. I like the wave of different coloured leaves, though. Wonder if cyclamens could go in a vertical garden, they have pretty leaves as well as BRIGHT flowers. I also have dreams of doing this, but first things first.
Also of note, the baby beginnings of my baby's tears lawn. These are from two weekends ago when Mum and I went to Aunty Meredith's and pulled up over a square metre's worth of the stuff, so it ended up with that sort of coverage over the ( whole back yard )
My tiny fuzzy green army :D Today I took those two green crates around to a local plant nursery, where it grows aaaall over the place and they treat as a weed. Filled them to the top with enough to completely line the edge of the concrete to about 20-30cm from the edge. This stuff grows on rocks, so I'm anticipating it'll cover over the concrete, too. How long it'll take to grow I have no idea, whether I should expect a lush carpet by summer or what, but I'm guessing it'll do sod-all over winter. And it was all free! For some context, Bunnings sells them for $8.63. That little pot is about the size of each of the little patches I've scattered around from Aunty Meredith. By Bunnings' estimates I've got hundreds of dollars worth of the stuff, probably over a grand, without paying a cent. And the pallets were free, too, thanks boss-man :D After spending thousands for the tank and general cleanup, this is super-refreshing.
Tomorrow, buy supplies for the vertical gardens, see about getting started on at least some of the construction. I need to sand the pallets back, pry off the back planks so I can then line the inside with garden fabric/plastic/something (research that tonight) and nail it all back together. Six times. This is going to take a few weekends to get ready for dirt. Oh, and star droppers or something to keep them upright, because there's no way that fence is going to be strong enough to hold these things up. They're already heavy when there's no dirt in them.
There was one pallet I wish I could've gotten, probably about twice the size of the regular ones, and because the slats go across it, it'd mean it'd stand straight up a bit over two metres. How cool would that be? I could've put it right down the other end as a privacy screen down there. Alas, the thing weighed a goddamn tonne, and even if I had been able to lift it, it wouldn't have fitted in Mum's car. Still, it'll still be there at work, so if I'm enthusiastic about it in X months time, we could rent a trailer and pick it up that way.
asdghalks I'm so excited. THINGS ARE HAPPENING!