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Alright, these are random pics of my back yard non AP at various stages in the past, my dirt gardens aren't looking so great at the moment...

What a nice home that frog has, EB!

Well, we will have to wait a couple months before my dirt garden is worth looking at. My peas are up, and my spring onions are planted. That's about it!

That's awesome EB.

By nature I seem to always end up with everything so perfectly placed, laid out, orderly, etc, but I soooo much prefer a rambling garden like yours. Much more enjoyable to wander through. And that Perth climate must be just ideal!

I see you have IsaBrown's too? I have one she blows the pants off the other 8 pure breeds in terms of reliable egg laying.

AJ

AJ- yeh isabrown, when we got ours the guy said you can't kill them.He was right and they lay well. Don't worry about a rambling garden it will happen if you let things go to seed for next years crop!!

EB- like the pumkin hanging in the tree.

Yeah, Perth climate isn't to bad.. Im generally very lazy with my planting, just mix all the seed together, sprinkle it over the bed, then rake it in.. Pumpkins I have turn up in the strangest spots, the one hanging in the tree had grown up the side of the chook pen into a pear tree, across the pear tree into an avocado tree... I hardly even noticed it was growing up in the canopy until the pumpkin began to hand down...

My "girls" are getting a bit old now, they don't lay much at all but I can't bring myself to knock them on the head.....

Just think of them as fish with wrap around boas EB

hehe.. friends must say goodbye before they can meet again!

Geees, I don't believe you'er all trying to talk me into killing my girls... After all the hard work they have done for me over the years....????

Yeah your right, fish with boas... If I don't get rid of these I'll never be able to get more... Mmmmm, trade in the old girls for younger ones... doesn't sound good....

Oh I don't know, a trade in sound good to me, since they have done all that good work, there seems not much left for them to do!
I mean well you can't eat them they'd be tougher than my boot.

Ok guys here a vegie garden to make yours look Fantastic

please bear in mind that i put veryy little into the sand before i planted any seeds

i have a mountain of cherry tomatoes (left top corner) a few feeds of small potatoes (the bare spot Lh bottom ) a few small pumkins are still growing but im not holding my breath for a great crop and lastly beans and capsicums (rh bottom ) that are stunted and full of catterpillas

i started the garden with high hopes of staying in this house for a few years with plans to improve the soil as i went but the buggers are selling it so we are moving to a house my mum owns (as soon as its empty) and wont be having this trouble anymore

I keep forgetting that Perth is built on sand

Only on the plains. or where developers have made it flat mind you most of the peet bogs have been gone for years.

Yeah, you have to keep adding to our soils in Perth, the organic matter just disappears into the sand in no time... I have never bought a "soil" of any kind for my garden beds, I just keep buying composts, manures and straw and piling it onto the sand... Nothin but organic matter...

The soil does start to build up after some time.. I have some areas under my trees that after years of organic matter being added, they're almost self supporting with the leaf matter that falls, and weeds growing in amongst them. The nice dark top soil is almost a foot deep in some spots, even though I haven't added much to it in many months..

Hi,

Here's our soil-based gardening system.

Gary