BlackThumbBob
"You're a garden bully!"- Gimpy Cat
 Hello all- this is the first entry for our new Tassie garden blog. While this may seem a bit premature, considering that it's two months before we leave drought-stricken Victoria for the lush hills of the North West of Tassie, I am a compulsive planner, and therefore I'd love a place to bounce my ideas off of others (or the floor and empty walls, and get LOTS of feedback. But first, the cast.... About me: Bob, Aged 37, School Teacher, Former Lawyer (in the US) and solicitor (Qld), also worked as an Environmental Scientist. Loves: my family, gardening, wildlife, photography, reading and bushwalking. Known as THE GARDEN BULLY. About HER: Helen, Aged 39, Craft Designer and Mum, into Quilting, gardening, photography (where I get it from) and other craft. Known as Gimpy Cat, or SHE WHO MUST BE OBEYED. About MINI-HER: Laura, Aged 4, Professional burden, into gardening, colouring, bugs of all sorts. Known as LITTLE PERSON, LAURA-SNORER, MEWLER, IT or MINI-WENCH. THE GARDEN: Well- there is no garden. We have purchased 2 1/2 acres of never-before cultivated paddock on the outskirts of Sheffield, Tasmania. Deep, yummy red clay-loam soil, on town water. I'l post pics and schematics in future posts. So there you have it, cast, crew and scene is set. |
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The plans
These have been posted on the Ausgarden Forum, but I'll relocate them here. I'll post the original plans, and then follow up with changes.
Here's the first post from the OLD blog.
ENTRY 1.1
First up we need to add some infrastructure- including a hothouse, a small workshop and a garden shed.
Here are the ornamental areas we definitely want:
- Decidious woodland (along the drive- it'll make more sense when I post the Google Earth pics)
- Perennial/David Austin/Heritage Rose Garden
- Large expanse of native heathland/grassland (bring me those birds and critters)
- Native woodland (a mixture of Tassie and Mainland species, but particular stars to be spotted and lemon-scented gums, if I can get em through the first couple of frosts), both Tassie and mainland snow gums, and bird and possum-attracting species. Also, MUST have a Wollemi or two and a boaob, if it'll grow there, and a small grove of my FAVOURITES, myrtle beeches :-)
Here's the utilitarian areas we envisage:
-orchard of 20-30 trees, mostly varieties of apples Helen is after Heritage apples, whatever citrus we can grow there, and stone fruit.
-roughly 120 square metres of organic veggie beds, laid out in an easy-to-rotate system (prob Peter Cundall's system)
-chook run (possibly incorporated with the orchard)
-approx 12 sq metre herb garden
And here's some features we'd like to incorporate
-bird hides for photography, though I may go for a mobile system. Not sure on that one yet.
-a frog pond/stream
-lots of fallen logs/hollow timber (bring me those Quolls- I want QUOLLS dammit!)
-a dovecote
Old Entry 1.2
"You're a garden bully!"- Gimpy Cat
Entry 1.2 (old post)
This is the Google Earth image of our place
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