Adios Amigos

This will be my last blog post whilst 'actually working through school on my Personal Project'. My report is finished - product complete & I'm handing it in tomorrow! YAAAAA!!!

I will however post some pics from "The Gooseberry Patch" when I pick my first crop of yummies.

I've really enjoyed the Personal Project and now realised how much it helps you to become a better student. 

Adios Amigos!

Courtney Jessie-Pearl xoxo

Before 

After

1950's returned.

This weekend we gathered four of our vintage 1950's concrete pots and took them up into my garden. I planted most of the remaining herbs and vegetables in them, and some in the jarrah garden boxes that Dad made.

Oregano planted in passion fruit box for future ground cover.

Iceberg Lettuce Mum's most favourite.

Mint planted in lime tree planter as ground cover.

Lettuce planted in our vintage concrete pots.

Silverbeet in our tall concrete pots.

Sunny July!

I let all of my free mulch compost for a month and then my Dad brought home from work huge sheets of recycled cardboard which I laid down over the freshly weeded ground around my garden beds.

I layered heaps of the mulch over the cardboard which instantly made my garden look beautiful.







I filled all of my garden boxes and my wheel barrow with premium soil.















My great Grandad Fred's wheel barrow living to see another
day.

 In the center of the wheel barrow we have planted Pyrethrum which is a very useful companion plant as it controls a wide range of crawling, flying and sucking insects.

 This looks like my biggest pest - Giacomo!!

I planted two passion fruit vines - traditional Nellie Kelly under the trellis, can't wait for them to start fruiting!

Also in this garden box I planted baby carrots with companion plantings of Tansy as a insect repellant and Parsley as a root ally for the carrots.

 In great grandads wheel barrow I have planted strawberries with a friendly companion of spinach at the rear so as not to obstruct the sunlight, also at the rear is a Tuscan rosemary which I will eventually transplant into a hedging area, plus 2 flat leaf parsley plants.










In this picture you can see other herbs in the background which are going to be planted near the fruit trees this weekend.

C.J.P xo

Just trees

        

 Just trees kindly dropped of mulch for me today! 

Thank you for being so kind, what great service call them if you need your trees pruned. 

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How much wood would a woodchuck chuck...

Asking the local tree loppers for a kind donation of 6m3 of wood chips, lets see how I go!

Autumn Progress

Dad made some garden boxes to go under the mandarin, lemon and lime trees.

Us lifting them over the trees. 

Levelling them to be even. 

This is the wiring of the trellis being put in. 

This is the herb garden box that goes under the trellis.

Finished product. 

I'm passionate about this fruit!

 Today we built a trellis out of recycled jarrah timber for passion fruit vines.

Our friend Richard re-roofed an old building in the city of Perth and my Dad and my brother collected all the old timber. 3½ tonne of beautiful old jarrah!




We set the three posts 2m apart and 2m high.

 Dad mixing the cement.

 And we poured it in at the base of each post.

Trying not to get splashed.

















The three posts setting in the concrete!

I will complete this with stainless steel wires, passion fruit vines & compatible herbs planted in the garden bed just in front of the trellis.

Thanks so much Dad!


 





CJP xo

With a scratch, scratch here and a scratch, scratch there!

Earlier in the year I spread our mulched tree wood chips all over the weeds in my garden. It did a great job in stopping them growing out of control over summer.

 Today we made a moveable chicken pen to put over areas where weeds have re-sprouted. Dad's in the background working on the passion fruit trellis (more about that next post).

 We collected the girls and put them in.

 Lucy & Penny.

 Raven.

 Curiousity and the Cat!

Bock, Bock! The girls are very happy!










CJP xo

Indian Summer

Well by half way through Autumn I thought I would have had most of my plants in - but with our Indian Summer in Perth going on and on - I have held off. So with a few showers predicted for early next week and the temperature finally under 30 degrees - this weekend should be a productive one in my garden! In the mean time I have been busy compiling my report, which is coming together nicely.

CJP x

From The Kitchen Garden

It has been a very busy summer around The Gooseberry Patch! My designs on paper look great and out in my little plot we have been busy clearing and tidying. At my home we also have a Kitchen Garden 'out the back' which is always full of self sown herbs which grow like a mini-meadow. When my 'Patch' is ready for planting out I am going to be transplanting lots of these little herbs from the Kitchen Garden to The Gooseberry Patch. Here are some photos.

Baby coriander - we start using it in our food even when it is this small. It ends up growing quite tall & going to seed which we then shake all through the garden beds.

Parsley seed head - we also have heaps of parsley EVERYWHERE, mum loves it. It grows for a long time and then grows a tall flower head that goes to seed too.

From Courtney Jessie-Pearl