Road gardening
Gardeners How time is whizzing by – half way through the first month of Spring already. Time waits for no plant, nor the planters – us. Some of the things we did last Friday are on my blog for that day. We covered a lot of ground and did plenty – thanks to the dozen folk who turned up. And congratulations to Sam who has bought his own compost bin and taken some compost from our road bins to quick start it. Remember – if you... Read More
Manly Vale Community Garden opened today
Central pavilion, Manly Vale community garden, 4 Innes Rd, Manly Vale Raised bed gardens, Manly Vale community garden I went to the opening of the Manly Vale community garden today, about 45 minutes drive from Chippendale over the Harbour Bridge. When I spoke there I described some of the stories from our road gardening here in Chippendale. From the feedback I received it’s clear folks find a lot of useful information and take heart from... Read More
Road gardening 10 Sept
Removing compost from bins Quality control by Bob The Chook Planting, espaliering Meyer Lemon Read More
Calculate the sun for your house
There’s a beaut device on the web which allows you to see how the sun affects your site, your solar hot water panels or your solar photovoltaic panels – or how your neighbours roof may affect your panels . . . Visit it here: www.suncalc.net… It’s on Google Maps. To use it, type in an address and a date, and it shows you the track of the sun, from sunrise to sunset. That’s the path the sun takes on that date. So... Read More
What we did in the road gardens today
About 10 or more of us gardened today; some chefs from a well-known restaurant, some new gardeners, some folk from Total Environment Centre interested in our gardens, some reliables who have been coming for weeks now. We: - took compost from several bins, turned them with augers, measured the temperatures and put in some coffee husks from Toby’s Estate - planted a Meyer Lemon tree which we then espaliered to make it unattractive to thieves... Read More
