Backgarden - Sept 2012

 The passionfruit vine appears to be dying off so we will need to plan on what to do there. We have moved one of the peach trees into the back garden and hope that we can save it.

 The fruit-salad plant is now very large, though not fruited but the banana plant has struggled in the cold weather that we have been having.

 The lillypilly in the back garden is growing very well, behind the blackberry is branching out everywhere, hopefully lots of tasty fruit again this year.

The vine on the back wall is just getting its leaves back and the kaffir lime and bay tree are happy, however the curry plant seems to be struggling a little, will try feeding and mulching.

Peach Tree Buds

Am not sure that this should be budding now, but the Peach Tree has buds...

Fruit Salad

I was delighted to be able to take home grown peaches, Blackberries and Strawberries with my yoghurt for lunch today - yum!

Up on the Roof

This is a different view of our front garden, from the roof, and you can see the Peach trees which we have put the pest deterrent bags on, the paper bags have not been successful as it is too windy, and they keep blowing off.

The Gunnedah 'Sustainable Sister" is here once again for a holiday and with her husband had the great idea of making some more mesh bags for the trees, they are made from a light flyscreen sown up with 'brickies' twine.

You can also see the layout of the  no dig  and vertical gardens, the bird baths and the amount of grass that we still need to get rid of!

Planting Peach Trees

We have been given two large peach trees by a colleague who owns an orchard, he had planted them too closely together and so had had to dig many of them up. We were able to have two of the salvaged, heavily trimmed trees, and do hope that they will survive the rather rough few weeks that they have just had.

 We pulled up the Persimmon and re-potted it ( not sure if it is actually still alive), and pulled down some of the trellis that we had up for the pumpkins to make room for one of the trees. In the background we have Mini Caulis, bean and snow peas growing.

 We will be adding some extra mulch tomorrow, but ran out of time today.

 There are buds all over the trees, we do not know which type they are, and hope that we have enough cool days here for them to produce fruit.

 We decided that as these trees were much larger than we expected we should move the JuJube tree out beside the pool , fence, so that we can espalier it, and put the other Peach tree in its place.

If the trees settle in, we should be able to take advantage of some shade this year, something that is sorely needed in summer.