Hi!
I spent a couple of hours today with a reporter and photographer from the local newspaper.
The reporter, Meg, messaged me via facebook as I had put up a post on the local community noticeboard about the insane illegal rubbish dumping up around Oldina. She wanted to know if I could meet and chat and show her some of the sites.
Its a far cry from my usual Tasmanian photos isn’t it? How depressing is this?
I was able to easily find a few places that we could reach by road and not muddy hiking – and they were really surprised by how much stuff we found in a short time and area.
Not just household rubbish, but builders rubbish – cement, bricks, tin, timber & what we think is asbestos.
Oh and a few farmers getting in on the act with several cow carcasses as well.
I told Jeff I wasn’t going to stand around in photos with an ‘angry concerned citizens’ look on my face.
Sigh. Guess what? Thats exactly what I ended up doing. I am going to look so stupid haha. I don’t do ‘serious grumpy face’ well. I told the photographer that smiling was my default state of being and he was now under pressure not to make me look theatrically ridiculous!
Poor guy – I couldn’t keep up the serious for long so he is going to have some weird faces that I pulled trying not to laugh to delete.
I did my bit and brought some rubbish home (I am sure I will find a use in the garden for this…)
So… what next?
Market guy turned up with my garden beds that he custom made to size for me.
Not bad for $100 delivered hey? So awesome.
I wanted them down the side of the fence here… but this suspiciously looks like there might be some more digging in order.
Will give that a few coats of thought first!!
I swapped out the coffee bins today.
I gave a few handfuls to the worms
And dumped the rest into the new raised beds.
Its been raining so I imagine it will be washed down into the cracks.
Winter eggs are so manky!! Erk
Some of the new snow peas in the hothouse are going nicely…. others looked a bit chewed. I did find and eliminate a couple of suspects. (Slugs)
The lettuce in the hothouse seem to have gotten over the moving shock – its taken a while.
The brassicas I put in there are also painfully slow.
I made some more soap tonight too. I was trying another design mixing colours… but one got too gluggy compared to the other two – so hopes not high for what I want but I am sure it will be interesting to see the final result! I think they’ll have to sit until Saturday before I unmould.
Its cold. Raining. A lot… but some sun forecast for tomorrow! Better write up a list of things to work on tomorrow just in case they are right!
Hope you’re having a great week!
Cheers!
Just wondering why you use raised beds? In Los Angeles, we use raised beds with gopher resistant wiring (under the bed) to try to get gophers to leave our plants alone. Doesn’t always work!
Hi Susan!! 😀 I never thought of raised beds as a gopher resistant idea!! (We don’t have them) It sounds like a good idea 🙂
For me – sometimes its aesthetics… but at first it was because I was digging into areas and I just couldn’t control the weeds creeping in and it was such a huge continual job. So areas where I have moved into which was the lawn, I find much more manageable with the raised beds.
Its also not a bad idea to ‘age proof’ a garden. Reaching the taller beds is a lot easier than bending down to the ground. I know a lot of people do this.
In Australia (mostly mainland) we don’t get a lot of rainfall. Trialling the Hugelkultur beds with the water sucking logs is a good idea. Less need for watering. Other people make raised wicking beds for the same reason. Australian gardeners can suffer a lot with lack of available water in the heat.
For me overall? I just like having lots of different spaces to work with!