Ahahah source that stuff! yup. Any site where pavement is taken out. Any kind of rubble will do, though pavement tiles such as the ones used for sidewalks are easy to work with. Anyone who’s played with lego’s knows how much easier construction becomes when all your blocks are of uniform thickness.
Using true rubble, like from a wall that’s torn down makes for a pretty rough wall, that can be very nice as well, with extra crevices for plants and such.
Nice! Probably the kind of thing you develop an eye for and snap up stuff when you see walkway tiles being pulled up by the city council workers and such. Here the suburbs are paved with concrete sidewalks and asphalt, very little tiling - would need to keep an eye out in the CBD and such where you see tiles/pavers used more.
Star jasmins and grass going in:
Should look something like this (with grass at the front) once it takes off (other side of the deck, planted 2-3 years ago):
Wow your girl has grown since you last posted a pic!! My little boy is nearly 4 now and he’s growing like a weed. Couple more years and he will be bigger than me lol
Looks nice mate. Perhaps in the new place you can look into up-cycling some rubble into planter borders. If you use some concrete (cheating!) they become very very durable indeed, but their environmental impact becomes a net negative, unlike carefully stacking the rubble into a stable wall, held by weight and shape.
Perhaps we should have a “children of mudspike” thread in the private part of the forum…
I have wheelbarrow envy…
it’s a pretty cool wheelbarrow! I went to buy a new one for myself yesterday as the old one was getting too tired - saw the little green kids one and couldn’t help myself!
She loves it too, it came with a spade, a rake and a sweeping brush. She hardly required attention as we were planting, just played with her gardening tools…unusual and nice for us, hah.
All done! Birds will make a mess of the mulch on top but I can’t bring myself to put ugly shadecloth over it…so the driveway will just require a bit of regular sweeping until the soil settles down and sinks in a bit.
Love your attitude and approach on this, I need to take a leaf out of your book and think this way more.
So we had our last pull from the garden for the season a couple of days ago. Our weather had been flirting with freezing…but generally staying a few degrees above freezing with some warm days sprinkled between. As a result, our peppers were still doing pretty good…but the past couple of nights we’ve dipped a few degrees F below freezing and that has finished the summer garden for the year. It was still producing a good number of tasty peppers.
I made a bean / cucumber / pumpkin tunnel between two of the railway sleeper garden beds.
Pretty rough assembly- just some rebar and bamboo stakes with 150mm aperture tomato mesh - but it should do the trick. The idea is that the plants climb over the top and the beans etc. hang down between the wires, easy to pick.
Those clouds look just like the real ones in dcs
