Veggie Beds Ready and little bits...
All the bulbs are now sprouting quite strongly! Even in the front area which had bulbs from last year! In this area, my little one planted daffodils and tulips... and by planting, I meant that she spread the bulbs in the large trench that I dug up and then covered back up... and that my wife has been weeding since then! Still... you have to start somewhere... and it is now "her" part of the garden!
...and so she was crazy excited when they started blooming over the last week! No tulips yet, just a handful of bright yellow daffodils so far.
On one of her work runs, my wife dropped by the nursery to pick up some possible ground cover plants... there are large sections where we are trying to replace the cooch grass and weeds with different ground cover. My wife prefers that the whole area is all cleared before we try to put in ground cover... but I'm of the opinion that even if we were able to clear and prepare such a large area (as well as to buffer up enough money to plant immediately afterwards!), we will always be trying to outgrow the weeds and unwanted grass anyway, and so the perfect time to try and "blank slate" the area is never going to happen.
I figure that we should start getting some areas growing with the ground cover that we want, and over the coming years try to expand and out compete the stuff that we don't want. It might not work, but the blank-slate approach... well, I'm pretty sure it won't work. Sort of the perfect being the enemy of the good argument....
... anyway, it appears that my wife is taking my ideas onboard, and she planted these native ground cover plants around the little sapling fruit trees. It is a smallish strip that is about 10 metres long by about 1.5 metres in width. It will also be a good chance to see if the area will be suitable for that type of cover.
And near the carport, I have started pruning and trimming these bushes... they were starting to look a bit stick-like and growing taller... but we want to have them bush up a bit first! They definitely look a good deal barer than before, but I think they should grow back... either that or my wife will have a "told you so" moment.
And meanwhile, our father-in-law continues at full pelt, and in a couple of days had the raised veggie beds completed! Two IBCs cut in half to make for four beds ready for planting!
First an ag-pipe to allow for the watering system... that would be topped off with stones to form a sort of aquifer, and then finished with the planting soil itself.
Here they are, fitting quite nicely into our newly bricked up area... and over the next year, we will prepare the other side which should allow for another set of four veggie planters.... and there is a space nearby which we are planning to plant a berry bush or two.
All of this was topped off with a mushroom compost... quite stinky stuff, for a couple of days! And soon we will figure out what to plant in our first harvest attempt... quite likely we will have to set up something for the birds... not to mention various legged chompers.
So, the bottom pipe is for the overflow... and you fill the aquifer layer from the top pipe until the water runs out the overflow. Quite a nifty sort of setup which preserves the water and cuts down on all the watering time as well!
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Looking good :D
On the one hand I should get out in the garden more. On the other hand I honestly don't know when x_x
I think the only way for you to actually have a "blank slate" for the ground cover is to dig up the lot (including the topsoil to get rid of any roots/seeds that your poor unwanted grounnd cover might grow back from) and possibly replace the topsoil (and hope that doesn't have seeds etc of things you don't want).
That's what I thought about the blank slate as well... that there are just too many embedded seeds and roots to really do much about it... instead, it seems like we should just keep planting the stuff that we want and weeding out the stuff that we don't, and over time we might win!
That's very much a long term but very winnable campaign if you're consistent, good luck XD
It's always great to see gardeners get their children involved. The pure joy that washes over them when something they were involved with in the garden pops out of the ground is a sight to behold. Start them young, and there's a good chance they'll have their hands in the dirt when they get older.
The blank slate approach for a large area is a wonderful idea, but one way or another the weeds will still pop up. I'm sure we all would like to see what we want to grow, grow as prolific as the weeds do.
I love the idea of growing in those large containers. The way your father-in-law has designed the watering system is pretty cool.
Good luck with all that you guys got going on!
It is really great that they want to help out... even if their attention span only lasts about half an hour at most!
Are they wicking beds? If so do you have an overflow? Because otherwise you'll have an issue... I'm sure you've thought of this and it won't be too late...
Looks awesome though..!!!
Cooch is a nightmare. I'm prob half way between both of you.. remove as much as you can, put newspaper and thick mulch, then the ground cover.
I think that they are, and yes, there is an overflow as well!
Oh, good tip to plant the stuff that we want over the top of the paper and mulch!
At least it'll smother it a bit until the ground cover covers it!
Phew re the overflow!
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