Frog Pond and Herb Spiral Extension

 After de-paving more areas I decided to further extend the Herb Spirals on the front section next to the driveway. Having such hot weather also made me realise how important it is to provide water for wildlife so I lined an old cement plant pot and filled in with water and a native reed and placed it in the middle of the bed. Once the surrounding plants provide some shelter I will move some fish from one of the other ponds in as well to assist with keeping the water clean.

Tropical Grove Update

 It has been just over 3 months since we started transforming a huge hole dug by our rescued greyhound, Danny, into a semi- tropical grove. Since then we have eaten or frozen the 75 bananas that came from our very first hand of bananas that inspired this transformation. We have created a frog pond from the old fridge, started a hugelkultur bed and dumped barrows and barrows of free mulch into the area. All of the plants are looking great, including the seeds that we planted in the hugelkultur bed.



Poor Danny is concerned that we are going to fill in his next carefully dug hole and he leaps into it protectively whenever we get a spade and wheelbarrow out!

Danny protecting his excavations