Garden Project

We’ve made a pretty good start to the garden project where we are going to have a screened area off the front patio next to the shade room. Eva finished trimming the roses back several weeks ago, and I moved some up from below the old retaining wall to where they will be above the new retaining wall. The plan is sort of evolving as we go along, but so far we will concrete in corner posts either side of the steps, use steel retaining posts between the treated sleepers, and then somehow put upright posts inside the retaining wall, which will have the horizontal slats attached. It looks like it will take several weeks at this rate.

In between doing that, I’ve had to deal with several large dead branches falling down from the trees out the back, broken off during the snow on August 5. I have started building a new bonfire stack which I can hopefully get burnt soon. I also finished mulching up all the branches I had up behind the shed. In the vegetable garden just about everything I planted in the past few weeks is coming up, I trimmed back the grape vines and passion fruit, and started pulling up all the grass and clearing out the dead raspberry canes. I may have to just relocate the best canes and dig up the entire bed since the grass is so bad. 
I decided to do a bit of mowing out the back in the area where there are no plover nests only. The battery that was in the mower was marked 2013 but I had been able to keep it going for quite a while with the battery charger. It finally quit and the mower was stuck out in the paddock and it was about to rain, so I managed to get a new one up in Legana and get it back to the shed. The trials of owning a lifestyle property!