Garden Bed Transformation

After a few years of gardening without raised garden beds, I finally decided to invest in them and bought 4 Birdies Garden Beds when they were on sale before Christmas 2019. Because my plants were already planted, I had to wait until the spring crops finished before installing them.

Garden Bed 1 was finally cleared last weekend and it was time to install the raised garden bed on Bed 1.

My favourite place to shop for soil is Soilworx, they are non branded, great quality and good value. 

This is the 2.5m long, 55cm wide, 38cm height raised garden bed from Birdies, in Slate Grey:

I felt super awesome when I found out the length of the bed fits nicely along the back fence and the original garden bed length.

Before placing the raised garden bed, I digged out as much existing garden soil as I can to use them in layering the inside of the raised garden bed.

This is what remained of the garden bed as we placed the raised bed in its position. I decided not to fully cover the bottom with cardboard as I don't want to block access of the existing worms and bugs. I just needed to block the grass roots, so I put cardboard on one side of the raised bed.

We used the box of the raised bed as the cardboard:

Now comes the layering. First is the red gum mulch:

Two layers of Garden Soil and Hay each. I used the garden soil that I digged out from the original garden.

And Aquamax Water Saving Mulch from Soilworx.

Another layer of soil, I used Veggie Mix from Soilworx. I originally wanted to use their Garden Soil mix, but they ran out of stock. The Veggie Mix is awesome too, especially because it has mushroom compost in it.

I added plant cuttings from clearing my garden beds yesterday and add in the Aquamax Water Saving Hay on top of it:

Finally, compost from our bin and final top up of the Veggie Mix:

I called back my seed planting master who went on bickie break to commence his job:

We planted Broad Beans, Snow Peas and Shelling Peas, with Rosemary, Chamomile and Parsley as companion plants.

Lastly, Pea Straw Mulch also from Soilworx:

Now, 3 more garden beds to go, just need to wait for the plants to finish producing before doing another Soilworx run to get supply.

LittleMsBusy finally has a garden

And now, she is also LittleMsGreenies, because she loves her greens.

Hello all, it’s been a very long since my last blog post and so I thought, it’s probably time to start again.

The great news is, I’ve finally got a garden of my own. *happy dance*

And, yes, I think it’s probably time to start my own gardening blog. Oh, it's very exciting.

Our new suburbia place has backyard and front yard that were originally covered in crushed rock, gravel type, very not kid friendly.

Lots of weeds were growing on the yard when we moved in, which we had to pull out manually.

I ordered new soil from Soilworx, 8,000 litres of Organic Soil Improver, Lawn Mix for the grass area, and Garden Soil for the planting areas.

All of this done within 2 days, thanks to my trusty lawn cart and spade.

Next, came the grass delivery from StrathAyr. We picked Santa Ana Couch, a softer blade variety, which I personally prefer because I like to walk on them barefoot.

This was done the day after, as I was running out of time.

Not ideal, as they should've installed in the same day as they were delivered.

But, I was working on this solo, so, can't do much about it.

The laying process was not too bad, they are heavier than I thought they would be, so loading them onto the cart was a bit of a challenge.

But, all done now!! I probably wouldn't do this ever again :-)