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8 Dec 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
Sometimes, instead of doing the garden work... I will just take the time to wander around the garden... picking up fallen branches and sticks to be later fed into the shredder... looking at various bits to figure out what to tackle next... and w...
29 Nov 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy
So, this was my first foray into my rogue mulching project... if you remember, my wife had want ed me to turn the heavy clay soil, seed with gypsum and dynamic lifter, cardboard and mulch the top area. Well, I figured that that top area wasn't r...
18 Nov 2022 4 minute read 1 comment bengy
... and even a few were actually completed! It has been a busy time in the garden over the last couple of weeks. I've found that I've been putting in an hour or two in the morning on most days... and the effort is starting to pay off. Of course,...
5 Nov 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
The weather in Canberra (well, most of East of Australia) has been a touch wet and stormy in the past couple of weeks. That has made for some disasterous flooding in some areas of New South Wales... but thankfully, most of Canberra has avoided t...
2 Nov 2022 3 minute read 2 comments bengy
Nothing is more fun than getting some new gardening toys! Sigh... when did I get so old... I used to relish the days of getting new electronic shinies, now... I'm excited by new hand tools! Well, in this case... it is an electronic garden tool a...
26 Oct 2022 4 minute read 3 comments bengy
It has been a crazily wet last week... too much rain, and I'm quite thankful that our stormwater is handling it all properly now. However, there are a couple of low areas around our house that take quite a long time to dry out... and when it is...
18 Oct 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
The garden is being pretty intensively worked upon from my wife and I over these last few days and the coming few weeks. We are both home, and we have a relatively open schedule until the middle of Novemeber. That means that we can both dedicate...
15 Oct 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
We have started to plant herbs in one of our garden beds at home... but all of them are still too young and small to start ripping pieces off for cooking. This is especially true for the two rosemary fledglings, which would have enough leaves fo...
12 Oct 2022 4 minute read 5 comments bengy
Both my wife and I are in a bit of a lull period for the next month and a bit... no crazy amounts of music to learn and no travelling for me. That will all pick up again from mid November. That means that we both have a good amount of time durin...
30 Sep 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy
Sigh... this is going to take ages to mix in the Gymsum and Soil Improver... I'm eventually going also add in the horse or sheep manure when we get it shipped in, but for the moment... it is going to be turning the top 10-20 centimetres of the h...
