I live in a block of flats with no real garden to speak. There is a strip of land running down the driveway.
3 feet wide and 60 feet long. I got tired of looking at the mess of overgrown grass so I dug it all out. Then I purchased at least 40, 15 kg bags of soil. Removing the equivalent of sand from the strip. Perth is nestled on a sandy coastal plain. Want a garden? Enrich the medium that one intends to plant into.
Copious soil, soil improver and nutrients went into this strip. Then I started to experiment.
What will grow and what will not grow?
Using only Australian Native plants through trial and error there is now a beautiful, colourful native strip as we drive into the complex.
Most residents love what I have done. The only person who did not like me doing it was the caretaker. He would not do anything until the owner paid him to clean up the strip of overgrown grass. So his reckoning was that I took away some of his livelihood. Though he still got plenty of work as a maintenance person for over 100 units.
I would rather have colourful plants to enjoy rather than overgrown grass.
So much i’d like to do, but too much rain means everything is soggy and waterlogged just now.
Have already done some pruning between the downpour of rain, but hoping for some drier weather soon.
Stood outside my back door and had a look at it, then decided to go back in and have a coffee.
It’s overgrown and soaking wet with the near constant rain we have been getting. Meaning to get the lawnmower out the moment we have a decent dry day or two.
No problem lifting some leeks and a good bunch of tender kale and sprouting broccoli tips. Had these with a chicken stew yesterday. Ground is still too wet to plant onion sets yet though.
