Ribh's D'Coopage

[Ribh]

Hi... I haven’t gotten any alerts... still here though!

No, I'm not getting all mine either. There seem to be some gremlins in the system@ the moment.

 

[Kris5902]

Me too... frustrating, trying to remember all the threads I’ve been following, some I can remember to manually check up on, others without notifications I let slide them have to catch up on... nothing is perfect I suppose

 

[Ribh]

Today's job was to level these garden beds & start planting out. Two years ago we bought 8 bare rooted miniature Japanese maples of various varieties & have been growing them on in the bush house. They were all supposed to do ok in Brisbane's climate; we lost 3 ~ may lose another yet but @ least I finally have them in the ground. The left over soil will be carted round for the chook house garden bed.

At present it's piled in the last bed. This will hold the man's collection of cymbidiums [sp?] They are rather spectacular when they flower but they have to stay in their pots & be mulched with bark chips ~ whole different concept~ so I can nab most of this soil.

With these little jobs out of the way we can take the chain saw to the yellow box slabs tomorrow & that will free up the area we need for the foundational frame for the chook pen.

 

[Kris5902]

I love raised beds! Less bending over for maintenance, and the added benefit of being able to control the soil conditions. Sure building them and filling them is more work at the start, but the only thing my city lot was good at growing in the native soil was rocks and dandilions! The way you’re using the posts in the corners to support the shade cloth is inventive... I’d be tempted to get some vines climbing up them or put a trellis between some of them.

 

[Ribh]

I love raised beds! Less bending over for maintenance, and the added benefit of being able to control the soil conditions. Sure building them and filling them is more work at the start, but the only thing my city lot was good at growing in the native soil was rocks and dandilions! The way you’re using the posts in the corners to support the shade cloth is inventive... I’d be tempted to get some vines climbing up them or put a trellis between some of them.

That is planned. Hubby specialises in elkhorns, stags & we have orchids. The posts will be wrapped with shade cloth, slits cut in it & filled with peat moss for orchids. Other posts will have stags & elks. I just haven't quite decided which ones as I grew a monster...

This started as a single plant from my parents Eumundi property but I've harvested plants from it for years & it's still this BIG! So I don't want one overgrowing a pathway.

 

[drumstick diva]

BYC wasn't working right for me the other day. It wasn't loading, then it wouldn't let me close some windows. Today, I hope, it's okay.

 

[drumstick diva]

I have raised planting beds and I loved them till last year. The deer discovered them and ate all of my fancy hostas. As a parting thought they ate the crummy ones too.

 

[Ribh]

I have raised planting beds and I loved them till last year. The deer discovered them and ate all of my fancy hostas. As a parting thought they ate the crummy ones too.

lol no deer here. My biggest threat is my own chickens. The back bed is for veggies & they've already had one shot @ that! I had to look Hostas up. I'm a plain old gardener. My man knows the Latin names of stuff & does things scientifically. We clash sometimes....

 

[Ribh]

BYC wasn't working right for me the other day. It wasn't loading, then it wouldn't let me close some windows. Today, I hope, it's okay.

Cyprus had a thread going the other day . A lot of us seem to be experiencing problems. I'm not complaining. I'm not getting anything like she is happening. I have an adblocker on & empty my cache regularly. Years of issues & no handy technician have taught me to be careful.

 

[Ribh]

So first job off the rank today:

Water is our biggest issue. We were finally hooked up to town water about 15 years ago but we still have massive amounts of wild life that uses our place as a bit of a corridor as we have kept the hill a la natural & we have always put out water. I have almost a dozen birdbaths scattered about the yard because I don't want the wild birds accessing the chooks water . The Bronze Wings, Diamond & Crested doves have found the feed & I can't leave the coop door ajar for my late layers or the wild birds move in & panic. Recipe for a cat disaster & it does not make my chooks happy. More freesias. This bed has some of the pale blue specimens in.

There's nothing worse than the sound of a chainsaw starting up when you're hoping for a lie in. I do regret the neighbourless days when it didn't matter & we could do these sort of chores before it got so stinking hot. We found another Blue Gum slab under the yellow box & it is all now piled to one side waiting. I have a Franjipani & some azaleas I have to move & we will lift the present pen round the corner under the iron barks to give ourselves a straight run but as neither of us are as young as we once were it is little by little & only one big job a day.