Garden Project

It’s official. I’m a weather jinx. Everytime I mention how glorious a day had been, the next day will be plagued with gray cloud. I’ve been out running a lot of errands lately. That included a trip to Bunnings, every Aussies favourite hardware store, to pick up some plants for the garden yesterday. I was extremely happy to find some coriander plants for the vegetable patch. An annual plant, it’s one of the most used herbs in this house. If it grows well, I’ll be able to pick it anytime whenever it’s available!

Parts of the garden are badly neglected. Some plants are dying from the wrangling of other crawling plants. Dead plants yanked from the soil have yet to be replaced with new ones. Soil that have become dry and undrainable. As the daughter of a former landscaper and agriculturist, I’m ashamed to say that I have no inherited talent for that side of the business.

So at Bunnings, I picked up a few plants, including a beautiful one called Snow in Summer which has beautiful little white flowers. The plot that I was working on is not huge. However, the ground has always been covered with an assortment of bricks which I found ugly. Furthermore, it was invaded by endless mint plants that never want to die. It was just growing at the wrong place by the tap and at a rapid pace too; so fast that before you can say ‘fresh‘ after tearing it out from the ground, it comes back again.

This is what the small plot looks like before, minus the mints.

It doesn’t seem like a heavy job, needing only to remove all the bricks, pull out every root of the mints, loosen up the soil, compacting it, cut up a piece of weed mat before laying it with a couple of tiles (which I found in the shed). I think that the soil might not be very well-drained but I’ll mix it up with some different soil when I have the time.

Well. Not really an easy task. But ….two hours and almost missing lunch later, here is what it looks like.

There will be a few little touch-ups, like getting another plant to put beside the Snow in Summer and some ground cover for the bare area. The rest of the plants in the tray will be going to another part of the garden. More on that later.

30 Oct 2008 | Filed in gardening 

2 Responses to “Garden Project”

  1. ms sayang on November 3rd, 2008

    I’m envious of your garden. Wish I have one…

  2. lisa lim on November 3rd, 2008

    You can come and work in my garden. I’ll give you an accomodation. And you can eat whatever there is from the vegie patch, k? haha.

    But on a serious note, why don’t you put some potted plants around your house?

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