Garden bed

 Well gardening has started back again after our deluge. I had this garden bed built by Len The Worm Farmer ages ago and didn't have time to get it going. This weekend hubby and I got stuck into filling it.

Firstly with stones to give it some drainage, underneath is cardboard to stop the weeds from coming up.

Then we put mulch in which I forgot to take a photo of

The stones are about 2 inches deep

The height of the bed

Mushroom compost in with valleys so I was able to put some food scraps in them and will cover them with used coffee grinds. then I will add some potting soil, manure, worm castings.

As you can see I have a long way to fill up the bed. It will be the healthiest bed we have put it because I started it with good stuff

Sunday Gardening

We were at it again in the garden Sunday. Why hubby decided around 11am to go out into the garden beats me, its the hottest time of day. Anyway we only worked for 1.5 hours

I bought this basket of goodies on the island, every Sunday Greg and Karen come over from Russell Island with their van and sell vegetables to us. I love using my basket for vege shopping, its keeps the vegetables from squishing in bags. These baskets are hard to find, very sturdy.

Visited my compost bin as well (built by the very handy man and garden guru Len) and saw the chilli and pawpaw tree are surviving. Corn to the right are growing, lettuce not doing so well

 So thats the garden so far, decided to extend the garden area by putting pots on the edges. Tomato plants in the white foam boxes you saw in previous posts, red grapefruit, meyer lemon, Nagami cumquat (the sweet oval ones you can eat fresh), I think there are two trees.

My worm farm is looking good with lots of worms.

So what does your garden look like?

Composting and Worm Farm

Another exciting day after my Silhouette Cameo 4  delivery on Friday. 

This Worm farm/ Composting bin got delivered on Saturday, 

built right here on Macleay Island by our garden guru Len

 Its made of all recycled material. On the right is the worm farm with a lid on it, I see a platform underneath to put a liquid catching receptacle.

 This is the worm farm area opened up, I have no idea what the plastic bowl with handle is for, 

will ask Len when I next see him. 

The blue roll on the left is to channel the compost into the bin on the other side, like a funnel. Clever man this Len is to think of everything and build it.

 This is the section where the compost is ready to be used in the garden, it will be dropped out of the drum above in the middle after being 'cooked' in there. 

The pipe is to let water in to make the nice mulch.

Air vent for the composting bin, the bin is put on wheels so I can turn it around easily.

 This is my first worm farm that Len made for me and I've had for a year now. Its not doing good, or not fast enough and I know now I have to put cow poo in it to get worm poo hahaha.

  My fancy collection point

 The lid opens up so I can feed it and I put shredded paper and dry leaves to keep it cool.

 Can you see that healthy black worm casting under the leaves and lettuce?

I add the dried leaves on top and spray them with water to keep it cool

I use this pump action water bottle to water my worms