Filling up the Trailer

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Spoiled by continual beautiful days

All these beautiful days! My kind of autumn!

I vaguely hinted at going on a bit of a hike today but we ended up getting stuck into tidying up the front/side of the house. Its an area that hasn’t been touched in forever!

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Who wants to go hiking at the beach when you can spend all day cleaning this up huh??

Because its not seen and it grows no vegetables, it gets neglected.

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Gutters needed immediate attention

The gum trees that tower over us on that side, shed a lot of bark and leaves – a constant issue, so its kinda easier to ignore than worry about it!

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Jeff on gutter duty

Whatever we do here, it will be a continual cleaning up effort – so apart from cleaning up the mess and pruning back shrubs, I am not really sure how to use the area.

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Why not a view from the other end?

We have a pretty amazing bush out front called “Lions Ear” I cut it back to the nub each year and it springs back bigger and better each time. It also self seeds rather happily, so we ended up with a front entrance issue

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These thrive on neglect!

The flowers on this are rather unique – well I hadn’t come across anything like it before –

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Amazing orange flowers

Closer look?

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Cool huh?

Anyway, so I went the hack

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I rather enjoy pruning stuff

But then I had to get the roots out of the ones we weren’t keeping.

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They weren’t going to come quietly!

I think I broke off a lot of the tap roots somewhere..

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Note to self. Dig up plants early, not three years later.

I will keep these for a month or two until they are dry, then run them through the mulcher for the compost. (or kindling or garden markers)

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Quite a bundle!

I managed to clear a decent space!

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I know – it doesn’t look pretty yet. But at least we have some access!

Time to bring the trailer closer!

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The cage is so handy!

Meanwhile around the side, Jeff has gone from this –

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To this –

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And Mana wielding a spade –

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Go Mana!

has cleared this bit –

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We found a tap!! And what’s more – it works!! Seriously! Been here for four years and had cursed the effort of getting water to this side, and all this time we had a tap!!

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Unearthing treasures!

Still a bit of colour left in the hydrangeas!

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A vast improvement so far!

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Reckon the trailer is about full!

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And still not finished!

We gave up about now and came in for a late afternoon tea

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Still able to enjoy fresh tomatoes whenever we please!

Which entailed testing out all the relishes

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Difficult to choose which one

And hot chocolate!!

I hope the start of your week has been excellent!

Cheers

 

 

Author: Lisa

A happy traveller through life! Right now living in NW Tasmania with a gorgeous Nurse-Husband, a fool of a Siamese Cat and several chickens. We love our fairly simple lifestyle of growing a lot of what we eat and enjoying the stunning surrounds of our little patch.

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