Grow Your Own Sustainability
8 Dec 2023
A recent local Bunnings trip. I’m just sharing some photos here from my recent trip to the Bunnings plants section.
I saw some beautiful Lillians – some I haven’t seen before and some great colours too. Very unique and vibrant.
3 Dec 2023
Today I spent some time in Nonno’s garden. He had some beautiful basil plants for sale – out the front of the garden on the footpath. Two of them ended up in my car.
I also marvelled at the Hollyhocks with their tall and big flowers. Just have a look at the busy bee pollinating!
Nonno’s garden is always a treasure trove of plants – not 1cm laying idle.
He pruned the fig tree to a stump last year and I thought it was curtains down for that fig tree, but I was proven wrong. It has taken off again!
He also has row and rows of seedlings – so much so that he had to put a fence up to deter the neighbourhood “help yourself to my veggies” brigade from taking it all. He spends countless hours keeping an eye out for these bandits while also regularly napping on the porch. Not a bad way to be at 82 years old huh?
2 Dec 2023
I have placed 3 bottles with cuttings on the display at my work plus a sweet potato that has started growing. I placed this on some damp paper in a container so we’ll see what happens.
The other plant is Rosemary cuttings given to me by one of the children at my centre.
The centre vegetable patch consist’s of a cubby house, 3 planter containers and a mulching tumbler and worm farm.
The children were very inquisitive and we named all the different herbs plus they had a smell and a feel of the lettuce roots. We also replanted the spinach that was eaten by some sort of bug which is still unknown to me to this day 😦
I want to purchase some new seedlings and transplant some from my mini green house. I also want to try and find a zipper cover for these veggie patches to protect them from possums and cats because I found evidence of droppings and cat poop. Its way too toxic to be near children, myself or the plants and also just plain disgusting. Why people let there cats roam wild I will never know – very irresponsible in my opinion.
25 Nov 2023
I did mention in an earlier post that the bird had evil intent well that was very true. All the basil has been dug up and unceremoniously discarded. I thought about purchasing some bird netting but it’s a bit hard covering plants that have grown in a pot.
I’ve replanted all the dug up plants and gave it a feed of Seasol. Hopefully I’ve saved it and I’m sure the cooler weather and rain would have also helped.
On the positive side – there are lots of worms in the soil so that’s the reason the birds are feeding.
The tomato plants are exploding with new growth – lots of green tomatoes on the vines. The carnation propagation hasn’t died so that’s a bonus and I carefully pulled an offshoot off the fig tree with lots of roots and have replanted it in some propagating soil.
Next week I’ll also start a veggie patch at the kindergarden and get the children involved with planting seedlings. I’ll save some milk bottles and turn them into hanging baskets and start a mulching tumbler. I’ll also use the milk bottles as a watering can.
I’ve also placed some skewers around the basil plants so it’s more difficult for the birds to dig them out – let’s hope that works, but it usually does help.
Veggie Patch Anywhere 