Fejoas and Front Gardens

We have harvested about 2 kilos of fruit from the food hedge this week, our best year by far. And after seeing them at $15.99 a kilo in the local supermatket I was extra pleased that we had chosen this plant to create our hedge.

 

Our local lawnmower man has been kind enough to drop off extra lawn clippings, which I have been layering with shredded paper. we now have the first three layers of our new no dig front garden.

Fejoas/Pinapple Guavas

 This is our first crop of Fejoas/pineapple Guavas. They are very tough and we are growing them as a food hedge. For more information on Fejoas click here, here and here.

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Planting Fruit Trees and Tidying Up

We have decided that it would be better to plant some of the fruit trees that we have in pots. That way they will produce more food, some shade and habitat. Deciding what could go out on the nature strip took a while, it is a tough position, so we finally settled on The Loquat and Fig Trees to start with. Using compost that we had made the, old pavers for edges digging began.

It looks so easy when it is all done, but it was a huge job as the grass is so thick, Andy was terrific doing it! He also scattered some of the Everlasting Daisy seeds around the bottom, so hopefully they will come up.

The other job that needed doing was the No Dig Garden out the front, so we pulled out all the old plants and lots of weeds and added compost, manure and worm castings. The we planted carrot seeds, Japanese Turnip seeds, Perpetual Spinach seeds and Dwarf Kale seeds. As well i transplanted some Spinach, Strawberries and a Marogold from the old wheelbarrow garden, it was time for that to go.

As you can see we have some fruit on one of the Pineapple Guavas, and the Pineapple Top under Mat's window is still hanging in!

Front Food Garden

To the left is a picture of a fruit blossom on one of the Pineapple Fejoas-which will eventually be a hedge. They are all looking much better since Andy cleared the grass away and put newspaper down again. Below is the front no dig garden which is really starting to fill up. We have now planted some extra Salvias too.