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