Alan's Garden Blog

I am certainly no expert on citrus but I can tell you that the Tahitian Lime my daughter planted about five years ago has been just brilliant. She was reacting to having to pay a dollar each for limes to put in her Corona.

It has been prolific but best of all gives us limes almost all year round. I give it plenty of water and some sulphate of potash occasionally. I have pruned it severely a couple of times but that was more about keeping it to a manageable size. The pruning did not bother it at all. So if you are looking for a lime to grow in a temperate area like Toowoomba the Tahitian is the way to go.

At last it’s starting to warm up. I have been getting my gardens ready for spring. I planted some ‘green manure’ a while ago and have dug that in and added some good compost with plenty of worms.

It’s coming close to harvest for my beautiful garlic. This is the third year I have used this garden for garlic so next year I will give it a break. I think I will put in a hundred next planting, I just can’t get enough of it.

This was an interesting job, converting half the chook run to a high garden. Three of the walls walls were already there so I added the fourth to separate the chooks from what they love most. Then it was wood chip on the bottom to lift the level.       OLD PLASTIC   Plastic to hold the sand.   SAND BASE FOR LINER     RESERVOIR LINER   You will notice the liner does not go all the way to the top of the garden. This is because the garden is wider than normal(1600 mm). In a conventional garden...