This week I did my personal introduction so thought it would also be useful to introduce the SpringWorth garden.
We live in the inner east of Sydney within 5km of the city centre, so a garden is rare, but it was important to us when we moved.
Admittedly the garden hasn't been quite the star we'd hoped. The neighbours needed a repair and the work plus the scaffolding caused an ongoing battle to revive the lawn. (The weeds are winning). It's built on top of the garage, isn't very deep and has pretty poor drainage.
In winter the garden doesn't get much sun so rain leaves the soil wet for a long time making it impossible to mow. The grass is so long now it flops and this is after a mowing attempt.
The raised bed is a modular kit from Birdies hasn't delivered a harvest - yet - we just buried more bokashi waste ready for some spring planting action.
We have two paved areas, a patio upstairs and a bbq and storage area downstairs with bikes, a worm farm and a bonsai tree.
The back corner connects to the other neighbour and the cat loves going across the wall and into their garden.
This is the weekend's project. A few months ago we buried a half 'baked', smelly, rotting bucket of bokashi under here with some unwanted tree pieces and covered it with cardboard. The plan was to make some good soil and build a raised garden bed.
We'd already dismantled wood from some road side pallets and kept the nails figuring we could reuse them too.
First we took off the cardboard layer and dug out where it would fit.
Then we measured, cut and nailed the pieces together, figuring it was easier to nail the side pieces in first because of the tight space and then just add the front pieces in-situ.
Ideally the side pieces would come to the front, but that would need four pieces of wood, four cuts and four random length pieces left over. Instead we opted to simply cut two pieces in half and live with the 8cm gap. I mowed the lawn this week so we added those clippings to compost and then added back the soil, it will need more soil for planting but that's a job for another day.
