They say that during COVID-19, Bunnings was the shop that made money. I'll believe it. With people stuck at home, lots of people turned to their gardens to fill the time. Given that we already do a fair amount of gardening, I don't know that we quite fit that category, but we did do some spontaneous stuff during the lock down.
It all started with our compost. Steve takes good care of it, in the three bins we have out the back behind the fruit trees. It was looking particularly healthy, and we were talking about how we had noticed the trees really respond when we had just used it on their roots.
Out the front of our house, along the fence, we had put in (over a year ago now) a couple of trees that will eventually grow up and shade the house from the hot western summer sun. They were taking a little while to grow and the soil quality there was pretty average, so we were thinking of dumping the latest batch of quality compost dirt straight onto it, to help those trees out.
But why just dump your compost on the grass around the trees and hope for the best, when you can build a garden bed out of leftover bessa blocks you've got lying around (from knocking down the bbq that originally came with the house out the back) so that all of that awesome nutrient rich soil doesn't get lost? Exactly.
So suddenly, those trees you planted (in hindsight, not very uniformly we must admit), are now part of a garden bed made out of bessa blocks. The compost is in, and making everything look amazing and green. The eventual plan is to actually cement the blocks together to make the garden bed edging a little neater, but given that we ticked absolutely everything else off the list of things to do when COVID-19 hit, we had to leave at least one thing there right? I mean, what's a to do list without anything to do? Really, we are doing that list a favor by not bothering to finish the garden bed edging.
When we do finish the edging, I'm going to use the holes in the bessa blocks to plant flowers for a pretty boarder. Until then, things are messy and we don't mind. The compost grew lots of tomato plants and pumpkin plants too, and we are just letting them do whatever for the moment.
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