Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: gardening and related bits and pieces 49Jan 08, 2011 1:20 pm Oh dear I seem to have accidently bought some more plants. Inspired by my "Ned kelly" bargains yesterday and new veggie seedlings I went down to my favourite local nursery to buy some soil conditioner. One of their plant suppliers is offloading some of his plants atm because of water concerns on his property so there were bargains to be had. IN the 1/2 price section 3 x westringa "jervis gem" Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ 2x grevillea "sea spray" at $5 each Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ plus grevillea "lemon supreme" Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ 3x grevillea "apricot glow" Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ at $10.50 each 1 x hakea laurina $12.50 Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ As well as my planned 6 bags of soil conditioner. The Westringas, Apricot glows and yesterdays ned kelly purchases will be a privacy screening hedge along the fence. The hakea will be a feature at one end or the other of the hedge. The Lemon supreme and one sea spray will be in the native garden section under the gums at the back of the house. ( Shelter for birds, once the final retainer is built. The other sea spray will be found a home at the front. Hopefully these will attract lots of birds to the garden. Re: gardening and related bits and pieces 50Jan 08, 2011 1:34 pm lachjor Hi again I've just been reading through your thread again and had more questions for you On your post dated Wed Oct 6, was it just the zeolite and spongolite bags that you were rotary hoeing into the sand? Is that all that needs to be rotary hoed in? The other stuff that came on Sun Oct 24, the big truck load of soil (??), was that just spread over the top? Where was that from? And how much was it delivered? Just trying to think if it's easier to get it dumped now, before we do fences. There will be side access, but maybe a tight squeeze for a truck. I'm not a big gardener, previous experience includes buying punnets from bunnings and poking them into whatever soil (sand lol) was already there... want to get it right the first time this time around though! I put in zeolite and spongolite . This was done after the hill of improved organic soil had been spread out but before rotary hoeing happened. ( 2 bags of each for 99m2 but could have used more) but if I'd been organised enough to score it ( think i did earlier but I was a bit slack by the time lawn prep time came) I would have put bentonite clay it down too and perhaps some seamungus ( big green shed stocks this) and if your budget stretches to it add in some saturaid as well. ( green shed place again. the large bags they have supposedly do around 200m2) I actually ended up spreading seamungus on top of the lawn the weekend after it was laid and then in December put saturaid on top and watered it well in. The soil arrived back in April or May and sat in a huge hill for a couple of months. We wanted it inside the fencing boundary before the fence went up for the same reason you are considering doing so. Ease of access. After the fence went up we had our retaining wall man pop back and do a rough spread out of the huge hill of soil improver. Be warned it stunk as it had a lot of pig poo in it. It was from Mumballup organics. Not cheap! I couldn't find anywhere else close to get an organic soil mix that didn't have added poo or something in it. You can ring and get a price for sq m and delivery. I can't remember what it was. If you go to the blog link ( below in my signature) you could search through older posts and find out more details. Once we knew the lawn had been booked to be laid we hired a rotary hoe from a local place and mixed it through with the dirt and rocks below. Fishing out any surface rocks as we went. HUbby then raked it as level as he was willing to do over a number of days. If you've got the $ consider getting retic. The only reason we haven't done it is because our water pressure is too low. We'd have to get a tank to hold town water or rain water and a pump to be able to run retic. ( still my dream but the $ aren't there atm) This was originally to have been the first ever garden of ours to have retic. PLEASE read the retic thread to get the best retic gear advice if you do this. If you aren't planning on retic then check out the info on the best sprinklers to use, what to avoid, if you must hand water what nozzles to buy etc. Re: gardening and related bits and pieces 51Jan 08, 2011 1:52 pm Ahhh, so the soil came earlier and sat for a few months, and then it was rotary hoed along with the zeolite and spongolite? Where did you get those from? (never heard of them). Just looked up Mumballup Organics and will save their details for when the times come - thanks How long did it smell for? Re: gardening and related bits and pieces 52Jan 08, 2011 2:54 pm It smelt for a few weeks at least and then smelt more again when it was spread out but not as badly as it had when ti was first delivered. I got my spongolite and zeolite from Perth at the garden week show in april. However it was from a fish farm/ pond supplier in woodvale. see the link http://www.woodvalefishandlilyfarm.com.au/index.html current prices on their website are Zeolite 10kg $16 - available sand, 3-4ml and 20-25ml gravel (Castle Mountain Zeolite the best) Spongelite 15kg $16 (mined in WA) but there's a farm supplies shop in town here that had bentonite clay ( it's fed to cattle to settle stomaches) I buy my mollasses from the hardware shop in town. They sell it for stock ( horse ) they decant it into 2L milk containers and sell it for $4. Re: gardening and related bits and pieces 53Jan 09, 2011 5:11 pm What sort of watering system are you putting in place? I'd be interested to know. Just went to the hardware store and have no idea which I should go for, slow dripper, pop up etc. Something easy to install and not too expensive. Re: gardening and related bits and pieces 54Jan 09, 2011 5:40 pm Re: The Patio two way hose fitting-I've tried a few of the products in that range and have found that they are absolute crud! A spade I bought snapped the first time I used it! Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: gardening and related bits and pieces 55Jan 09, 2011 6:30 pm Dollar my watering system is a combined system called A husband and occasionally myself. Sadly Our water pressure is too low for retic which was our original plan. So we do a combination of sprinkler ( the wobble tee and/or another sprinkler) and hand watering with a decent nozzle. Please read the Fu retic /watering threads. One of the the best sprinkler heads are the MP rotor 's if you are having retic. Deemaree you are going to laugh but my favourite spade/shovel ( i've never bothered to finds out what is what) is one I bought about 27 years ago from the discount bin in a hardware store in a small country town for $5. HUbby has bought a number of good ones since then but I still prefer my $5 bargain one. He doesn't seem to mind using it from time to time either. I get quite annoyed when he uses MY shovel and I want to use it! Re: gardening and related bits and pieces 56Jan 10, 2011 10:14 am KK the garden is looking fantastic!! I really should take a new pic of my front yard - might need to pulls oem weeds out first 'A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.' Louis Pasteur Vegie garden: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27637&start=0 My Backyard Adventure Re: gardening and related bits and pieces 57Jan 10, 2011 10:58 am Thanks Lisanne. I need to do some work on the potatoes. But not this morning. Went for a longer walk than usual to look at retaining wall steps this morning. DH is outside watering while I type this and hurry Youngest up as he has swimming lessons starting soon. well I planted the 4 punnets of veggie/herb seedlings yesterday and made sure I dug in some more good soil conditioner/compost before I planted them. This morning when I went to check on "my new babies" I discovered something has been on the munch. I've lost about 6 seedlings over night to something that likes new shoots. Hopefully enough will survive though. Picked some more cherry tomatoes. Used some for lunch yesterday along with some basil and garlic chives. Went down well on a leftover multigrain roll. Nice to be eating something from our own garden. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: gardening and related bits and pieces 58Jan 22, 2011 12:07 am Re: gardening and related bits and pieces 59Jan 22, 2011 12:37 am Keep it long then too. You get less weeds come up in spring Re: gardening and related bits and pieces 60Jan 29, 2011 10:40 am Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Some before pic. More on the blog. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Looking from the front of the house down the side of the garage to the back. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ reverse view Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ future steps as marked out by Hubby. This has now been shifted over about 600 by the boss man ( Arthur) Retaining guys came on Thursday and began digging. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Then they returned on friday and completed most of the first wall section. It was pretty warm so they quit at 1.30ish. Threatening cyclone makes for very hot, humid weather. 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