A new Vege Garden being built
I haven't had a VG for about 6 years, and I'm missing it! Had various incarnations for 20 years prior to that. I did sort of make one when I first moved here but it needed possum protection, which I never finalised, so I never planted out.
So, here is the site as it was about 12 months ago:
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The mound of fill was from the excavation for the shed extension (still coming......):
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The whole garden will be caged with 25x25 Bird Wire as there are numerous possums, birds, and Three Black Cats to keep out. There's a dude building it, and I'm the helper and finisher. Only problem is that the dude is as slow as a wet month. Since the end of April, when the first post went in, it's taken him fully 4 months to erect the other 11 posts. They are big suckers (150x150) in concrete a metre deep, but still - a post every 1½ weeks is pretty slow going.
Here we are as at about two weeks ago:
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In that last pic I'm standing in the property next door. The retaining wall for the garden will also form the boundary fence.
The posts are not particularly good quality I don't believe. The are crazy green - you can see the juice being forced out when screws go into some of them. That means that they are now cracking badly (lucky they're 150x150mm). I spent a day filling up the cracks (mainly north facing) with Sikaflex, sanded a couple of days later with 40 grit and then painted with SolaGuard Ironstone colour. This is where we are as at this arvo:
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All up it is a very generous 7.2x5 metres. Three levels, each dropping down 200mm.
Next task is to finish off the collar ties and ring beam. Then two short posts go between all the perimeter posts, sleepers go in for the walls, yadda yadda.
I'll be 40g sanding and painting the sleepers before they go down as I don't particularly like the idea of Copper Chromium Arsenate leaching into the soil for veges to absorb. They'll be cream colour so it should look pretty spiffy too.
I think that there'll be enough fill with what is available (in the pics) to bring the levels up to 300mm below eventual ground level. At that point there'll be topsoil imported for the last 300mm (about 11 cubes) to bring it up to 100mm below sleeper. That allows a good amount for mulch on top. O'course the levels will drop as the fill/soil settles, so they will start at sleeper top level. I expect about 100mm drop over a few months.
Then it will be on to lighting (3x 30watt LED floodies), plumbing, water tank placement. I hope to be able to start planting......sometime in the future.......