Ribh's D'Coopage

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Yep. People don't plant trees because the leaves get in the gutters & the pool & it's madness in this climate. They are a super efficient cooling system. We have been inches deep in gum blossom for the last month but it only lasts a few weeks & feeds so many species.

Dad removed all of Nana's fruit trees and grapevine

I've only been here a few years but the jacaranda, citrus and hibiscus are really coming along. And I guess I'm grateful to dad for giving me a blank slate, but I'd have been even more grateful for Nana's plums and grapes.

I get it. Up here it's standard procedure to raze everything to the bare ground. It's a horrible practice.

They also sequester water and hold soil. Razing a block of land to the ground is not just a horrible practice, it's downright stupid.

One of the things we liked about our property was the mature pine tree in the back yard and the big gum tree at the side.

Well, the gum tree came down within 2 years but we managed to keep the pine for about 10 years (it would have been close to 70 years old by then).

I felt bad about cutting them down and immediately replaced them plus extra. Most of our "new" trees are over 3 storeys tall now.

I planted these two as tube stock around 27 years ago.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Very. Mostly they don't get replaced. People would rather snooty low maintenance designer landscape thingies that don't do anything & imo look absolutely awful. I love jungly gardens. They create habitat & help control the temperature.

And they smell good too!

It's much nicer to do your weeding and gardening in the sweet smelling shade rather than in the open in the boiling sun!

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

I have mixed feelings about spiders as I grew up being told they were lucky so killing them wasn't a god thing to do.

You're not killing them RC. You're....re-purposing them.

I always catch and release.
The only spiders, or any other insect for that matter, that I will kill is one that may harm me or my animals. (ie. poisonous, parasitic).

 

[Ribh]

They also sequester water and hold soil. Razing a block of land to the ground is not just a horrible practice, it's downright stupid.

One of the things we liked about our property was the mature pine tree in the back yard and the big gum tree at the side.

Well, the gum tree came down within 2 years but we managed to keep the pine for about 10 years (it would have been close to 70 years old by then).

I felt bad about cutting them down and immediately replaced them plus extra. Most of our "new" trees are over 3 storeys tall now.

I planted these two as tube stock around 27 years ago.
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Trees do so much! People always ask us why we don't cut down the trees on our hill to *open up the view*... but we've sat out 3 cyclones & watched the trees push the wind up & over the top of us. Without that protection we'd've been flattened ~ like so many others.

 

[Ribh]

LOL I had the opposite issue. For my first coop, I wanted a movable chicken tractor that could roam the yard. Well, my brother built it and he is a carpenter- so, I have a practical, large wood ediface to chickens complete with small hardwire run. LOL when I asked him if he missed the part about movable tractor, he just shrugged and said, I'm a carpenter, I build with wood. Well, it is nice and solid, sooo. I forgive him.

Hi there, oldhen2345! I didn't get exactly what I wanted either but as I didn't have to build it I am not complaining!

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

It's an interesting yard but not very safe or child friendly.

It may not be good for kicking a ball around Ribh, but it is much more interesting to explore.

Do you have any "Bush Tucker" plants? The kids will love that sort of thing in a few years.

Trees do so much! People always ask us why we don't cut down the trees on our hill to *open up the view*... but we've sat out 3 cyclones & watched the trees push the wind up & over the top of us. Without that protection we'd've been flattened ~ like so many others.

Exactly!

Friends of mine bought a property in Tasmania. It was really open (for pasture) and the wind just howled up the hill straight from Antarctica and would blow the rain in vertically through the doors and windows. I have encouraged them to plant windbreaks and shelter trees for the live stock all around the perimeter of the paddocks and in clumps in the middle but it will be a while before the plantings have an effect.

 

[Ribh]

They also sequester water and hold soil. Razing a block of land to the ground is not just a horrible practice, it's downright stupid.

One of the things we liked about our property was the mature pine tree in the back yard and the big gum tree at the side.

Well, the gum tree came down within 2 years but we managed to keep the pine for about 10 years (it would have been close to 70 years old by then).

I felt bad about cutting them down and immediately replaced them plus extra. Most of our "new" trees are over 3 storeys tall now.

I planted these two as tube stock around 27 years ago.
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Yep, some of our biggest trees are rejuvenated ones. We're the only property that has kept most of the native bushland so guess where all the wildlife comes! One lot of neighbours has been whinging they don't see much birdlife but how can they? They removed all the food & water resources.

 

[Ribh]

It may not be good for kicking a ball around Ribh, but it is much more interesting to explore.

Do you have any "Bush Tucker" plants? The kids will love that sort of thing in a few years.



Exactly!

Friends of mine bought a property in Tasmania. It was really open (for pasture) and the wind just howled up the hill straight from Antarctica and would blow the rain in vertically through the doors and windows. I have encouraged them to plant windbreaks and shelter trees for the live stock all around the perimeter of the paddocks and in clumps in the middle but it will be a while before the plantings have an effect.

Exactly! It also helps prevent drought. I read something recently about farmers who are rejuvenating their land ~ it's got a name I can't now remember~ & they aren't seeing the sort of ravages drought is bringing to their neighbours. We are so dumb sometimes.

 

[Ribh]

Do you have any "Bush Tucker" plants? The kids will love that sort of thing in a few years.

We do. Lillipillies. Bush apples ~not real nice. A bush plum which has interesting foliage but has never fruited.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Yep, some of our biggest trees are rejuvenated ones. We're the only property that has kept most of the native bushland so guess where all the wildlife comes! One lot of neighbours has been whinging they don't see much birdlife but how can they? They removed all the food & water resources.

Twits!

Ooops, sorry. That just slipped out.