Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Greenfish build - Garden talk 731Nov 20, 2013 9:34 pm Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: Greenfish build - garden pics 737May 27, 2014 12:34 pm As promised some new photos for you trees. As you can see some of the tubestock have grown impressively over the last few months, whereas some others have not grown quite so much. I'm just happy that they are all still alive, that's a win in my book!! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Apologies for the grass length. The only nice days I've been at work, otherwise it's been quite wet. I took these photos between showers. The initial plant is a lomandra, which when planted was only about an inch high. The bigger buses you can see are a eucalypt, and behind that a hemp bush and a kangaroo apple. The hemp bush is well over my head now - and we have cut it back. The kangaroo apple is very very bushy. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The front garden is coming along great guns. I finished the shaping of the garden bed and path itself a few months ago and am quite proud of myself to be honest! We are also getting grass in the dirt in front of the house now which is fabulous. We cleaned our windows about 6 weeks ago - the first time since moving in seeing as our dirt was actually disappearing. I'm actually regretting we did, although it looks fabulous since then we have had 4 galahs crash into our windows - on 4 different days. The poor stupid things. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ When should I prune my fruit trees again? My citrus are not doing so great. I really wish I knew what I was doing with gardening, but my fruit trees especially. I just don't know how to take care of them. On another note, after being out of action for around 8 months the kanga is running again, and we have managed to put a total of 34 or 36 trailer loads (we lost count one day) of dirt into the backyard now. It's almost completely shaped back there which means soon we can start the garden beds I have planned for my poor pot bound herbs, as well as my raised beds for my long awaited for vegie patch. Whilst I do that, DH will get to work on finishing our driveway. Last week we had to get our crossover sealed as council decided we were in breach of our occupancy certificate and threatened us legal action if we didn't do it. So that's done now, but unfortunately all the dirt they dug up got spread over the start of our driveway (you can see the darker bits in the first photo) it's quite thick, and with all the rain we have had it's turned into mud which is quite slippy and disgusting, so now DH will have to scrape that up and hopefully reveal our nice hard rock beneath again. He then wants to edge the whole thing and dump numerous tonnes of the smaller rock on it. They also didn't put crushed rock between the crossover and the road - just more dirt, so it is now mud and there is a very noticeable bump when you drive on it. I'm not too happy to be honest. We had $4k worth of drainage work done over the summer too, there are several pits, agi pipe and spoon drains across the property now. It seems to be working as despite all the rain as we can still walk across it and the ground is still firm which is so exciting and a massive difference. Re: Greenfish build - tube stock one year on 738May 30, 2014 12:25 pm Hi GF I found the Burke's backyard article helpful, especially the following: http://www.burkesbackyard.com.au/factsh ... itrus/2132 Citrus pruning It is not necessary to prune citrus to produce fruit. The trees can be pruned however if it is necessary to shape them in some way, for example to remove low hanging branches, or to remove branches that are rubbing and can cause bark damage and allow an entry point for disease. Use secateurs (for small branches) and a pruning saw (thicker stems) for the task. Tip: Make a small cut underneath the branch first then cut through from the top. This will stop the bark tearing. Citrus may also require pruning if too heavy a crop is produced. A heavy crop can weigh down branches to the point where they can break, especially after heavy rain. In this situation either remove some of the fruit to lighten the weight or cut out some of the smaller branches. The heavy crop can be avoided again by removing some of the young, developing fruit before it gets too big. The tree will then produce larger fruit. (We've just planted some of our fruit trees from pots but have had to leave off transplanting our other lemon and mandarin which are bursting with fruit...As this could be disastrous for the trees. DH is eating mandarins like crazy to use them up before we put it in! We had another lemon variety in a pot and did plant it out though after picking some young fruit off it and it has done well. ) Good job on the front garden bed! For the first time we've decided not to have any beds directly against the house walls and DH has planted some kike at the back. We're waiting for the retaining wall for the verandah to go in at the front. I think Kike might be a mistake and we will regret it later. I'm jealous of your lawn though. Already I can't keep up with the weeds in the existing garden bed at the back of the shed...DH composted from the chook pen and I now have wheat coming up everywhere as well as cape weed and onion grass and kike from the next block.... 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