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Gardening Together!

15 Sep 2022 4 minute read 5 comments bengy

  Ahhhh... last night I had driven back home from Sydney immediately after the concert to be able to be back home with my family for a least a whole day! So, when the kids had gone to school.. my wife and I (and her father) ended up spending a lon...

Snatching a Bit of Gardening Time

7 Sep 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy

  Phew... this was a luxury! An entire day at home to try and get some backyard work done! Except... I had to go into get some other administration chores done in the morning, and so what I was hoping to be a full day of mucking around in the gard...

A Quick Last Morning of Gardening

14 Aug 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy

  This was the last snatch of gardening that I was able to manage before I left on tour... I had a concert in this evening, and after that a flight to get away and on a chain of projects that would have me mostly away with little moments back at h...

Finally Installing some New Plants!

11 Aug 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy

  I have little days here and there in my touring schedule where I am making an effort to return home to help out with the kids... and to do a bit more on the garden so that it starts to look less like a muddy bogpit and more like a home! This lit...

DIY Chicken Pot Pie recipe from homegrown vegetables...

10 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments ddar1

Ingredients as follows:   SAUTEE: homemade seasoning saltsweet corn kernelsparmesean cheesebutter--1/2 stickchopped carrots--2 cupschopped red potatoes--3 whole potatoeschopped onion shallots----8 smallchopped garlic--- 10 cloves   add 1.5 pints of t...

IBCs for Wicker Beds and Rain, Rain, Rain...

4 Aug 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy

  Today was a crazily wet and windy day in Canberra and the surrounds... as I've mentioned before in previous garden journals, we have recently had our stormwater and sewage redone after the trees decided to take up residence in the old pipes. Tod...

Last Minute Gardening!

28 Jul 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy

  Yesterday was supposed to be a day of getting stuff done... and I did manage a good deal, but it really got quite bogged down with administrative sorts of things which was a good deal less exciting than it sounds! However, at the end of the day....

Slow Progress, but Progress! (Rock Walls, New Plants, and Improving Soil Drainage)

25 Jul 2022 5 minute read 0 comments bengy

  Now that the garden area is a complete blank slate (and in some cases... really seriously blank...), it is time to start making it our own. Of course, these things will take years and seasons to finish... but the best way to get there, is to jus...

Trying to Resurrect Some Small Trees

20 Jul 2022 4 minute read 4 comments bengy

  Well... the front of our house (and the back) is looking a little bit denuded at the moment. So many small trees and shrubs needed to be removed to make a path for the trenches of the pipework. I had moved a couple of the bottle-brushes beforeha...

The Start of Our New Garden Era!

18 Jul 2022 5 minute read 0 comments bengy

  ... and we have come back from our holidays, and the big works to our garden area is mostly completed. The trenches were dug, the pipes for stormwater and sewer were laid, and a huge swathe of destruction carved its way through our block of land...