Republic of gnash

Faye · **Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2011 10:03 pm

Impressive Gnash, will look great when it grows :thumb:

Jamey · **Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2011 10:12 pm

Nice work Nash!!!!! Love it all....

gnash · **Posted:** Tue Jun 14, 2011 11:54 am

Thanks guy's its slowly getting there, at the moment its actually raining so I'm glad I planted out more peas last night and threw heaps of fert arount :wink:

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Duff, its because I have an old rotary hoe that I'm able to get the gardens happening, the smaller garden was over run with weeds and lawn but 10mins with the hoe fixes that :thumb:

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I found out the other day that the railways are replacing sleepers on the Spencers Brook to York line so I'm aiming to go get a trailer load or two and make more gardens in the yard as the girls wanted to put flowers in one of them :swear:

my argument was "you can't eat the friggn flowers" :crazy:

........I wasted my breath obviously :anger:

as there are now carnations, pansies and some other things planted....

Burnsy · **Posted:** Tue Jun 14, 2011 1:24 pm

You can't eat flowers but the bbes love them and bees make the garden productive :thumb:

I am actually spreading winter flower seed between my beds as it has been such a dry year that my bees are really struggling and need all the help they can get. I have been feeding them sugar water for the last two months to help keep their numbers up and sustain them ready for spring.

CorporalChaos · **Posted:** Tue Jun 14, 2011 3:54 pm

Awesome garden Gnash. I find having several smaller areas planted instead of just one big area with rows cuts down on the damage animals and insects can inflict on my harvest.

gnash · **Posted:** Wed Jun 15, 2011 3:02 pm

Good thinking CC....my trouble is I have all this space and feel the need to fill it :bash:

plus I would really like to get to a point where most of my veg comes from my garden...once I have that sorted....I'm off to look for cows, sheep, pigs, rabbits or whatever I can sneak past the owner so I have a good meat source as well :thumb:

gnash · **Posted:** Sun Jun 19, 2011 12:23 pm

Mouw living dangerously...although at this stage she gives a pretty good accounting of herself :thumb:

Grot already wears a few scars on his head :dont:

Managed to plumb and plant another GB and turn over the second long bed.....I really buried the hoe in going up and down as I want to try some carrots out there.
At the moment I've planted radish, baby beets, french radish and target beetroot, the next is carrots and something :dunno:

I haven't figured it out yet

CorporalChaos · **Posted:** Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:38 am

Hey Gnash, how big is your yard and how many square meters do you think you have under cultivation? Any overview shots of your yard?

gnash · **Posted:** Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:12 am

-31.637483,116.723424

Google map the above CC

Everything below the road (yellow line) that's recently harvested and ending up forming a point to right of screen.
I get to play only around the house and the owner crops the rest, to give you an idea the black square in the yard where the green arrow is, is a railway sleeper garden bed 2 x 2 sleepers in length

dufflight · **Posted:** Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:30 pm

Lots of space.

earthbound · **Posted:** Mon Jun 20, 2011 6:55 pm

Surprisingly good looking dirt you have there too Nash... Good to see the broad beans really starting to go, mine are just starting to flower at the moment.. :thumb:

gnash · **Posted:** Wed Jun 22, 2011 3:45 pm

I might try and get hold of the purple flowering ones for next year :wink:

freoboy · **Joined:** Sun Nov 07, 2010 11:40 pm **Posts:** 41

mine have stopped flowing and look like they are 'rusting' . . bloody things
do those paddocks ever have livestock? thatd wear grot out nice n wuick

gnash · **Posted:** Wed Jun 22, 2011 6:03 pm

Yep....sheep over summer...its a very strange thing :inspect:

about 200 sheep went in and 198 came out :dunno:

...either way sunday lamb roast this weekend

freoboy · **Joined:** Sun Nov 07, 2010 11:40 pm **Posts:** 41

lol id guess the youll be eating l;amb for a while :whistle:

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