Over the next 12 months I am going to be transforming my bare lawn into a bird haven, veggie patch and chook pen, there will be a bit of lawn left, the boys have to play somewhere.
I am driven by the need to save money, doing so has made me realise that saving money helps save the planet. Growing your own veggies cuts transport carbon and cooling costs, filling in your lawn with native plants attracts native birds and lizzards, also less mowing and less fuel, so it seems to make sense to do both, save money and the planet.
So to start with we have scraped up all the bindies and burrs, mown the wild grass and getting some native plants in-
Emu bush, wytringer and a grevillia.
I will get their full names so you too can find them, they are only 1.5 meter bushes as we don't want huge trees sapping too much moisture from the soil and planted too close to the house, large trees can cause costly damage.
We have been delivered 2 loads of topsoil and spread it over to add needed sand to the clay soil mix, also to fill in the many holes left by 5 years of tenants dogs. Very happy to be looking after it ourselves now :oD
This blog will also contain little of what we are doing in the way of renovations, big changes here at 4 Sturt St.
Hope to help with any info I can.......chat soon ;oD
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