The pond garden (where a pond use to be), my acacia is doing fabulously, with some lavender, capsicum, potatoes, and borage. That's lemon balm in the front.
Grevillea 'peaches & cream' - I adore Grevillea for their look and colours and bird and bee attracting abilities.
There's been a fair amount of dedicated garden time going on. I'm trying to get the winter produce in the ground. I've been slowly planting throughout the garden with my major focus being on planting trees. Planting trees in Autumn so that they've settled in by next Summer and in the long term can provide us with lots of shade. I've been dedicated to planting natives but now I'm moving into choosing what fruit trees to plant - must get on and order those!
Produce vegies have been planted in the gaps in the existing garden beds. The soil is not great at all, I've been adding compost and manure but it's still really poor so I'll be relying on my worm tea to give the plants lots of nutrients. I harvested loads of purple sweet potato from one bed which are delicious! I like that sweet potato covers a lot of ground quickly whilst I'm being indecisive about what to plant and where.
Mixing in the manure with half the sweet potato bed harvested.
The sweet potato haul
Winter's plan is to develop a few more garden beds for produce. The biggest thing is deciding where and how. Do I want raised beds or something different? I'm leaning toward paths along contours and new beds made on the grass as it's a little more romantic and I want to mix produce with ornamentals mostly. It will be a slow process but I hope to have a few extra square metres by Spring for planting up. And I'm hoping to have some chickens before then to help me along!
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