The Gardening Bug

It has been a few months since I came back from Japan, and I have been spending a lot of time in the garden. Our yard is pretty overgrown, a bush garden which is full of weeds that the local birds keep dropping in. Slowly reclaiming areas from the weeds. Have a pretty good area down the side of the house that gets good sun, and looks like an ideal candidate for the vege patch.

Currently establishing a few passion fruit plants (black and banana varieties), and the rhubarb is also doing well. Bought a bunch of dwarf citrus fruit trees and also some boysenberry plants from Daleys Fruit Nursery in Kyogle which has similar local conditions in my area.

I have a spot picked out for the boysenberries but not sure if it is too shady, I suspect they will get summer sun but mainly shade for winter. Well if they fail this year, I'll try elsewhere in the yard.

Meanwhile, until my home orchard is up and running, we are getting weekly fruit delivered at work from the thefruitbox.com.au , should be healthier than all those biscuits I usually eat.


Looking forward to some avacados in the garden next year, have a grafted "Reed" avocado, which we have nicknamed "Oliver" , I'll leave it to the reader to work out why. ;-)