pergola project

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Date: 18 July 2006 04:17:30


This is my winter project in the garden.
The photo is taken from what used to be my chook-yard. I am building a pergola for the old grapevine that used to be along the chook-yard fence, before it collapsed. My vegie garden has always been from the fence (at the start of the pergola) to just before the almond tree that has commenced it's white blossom (in the middle of the photo). You can see the garden area is mainly weeds at present, that's because we had several years of drought and I just didn't have water for it, was distracted by other commitments and got out of the habit. But this year I'm back into it with a vengeance. The garden bed with the short corrugated iron sides has some cabbages, pak choy, broad beans and silver beet growing in it.
The pergola will eventually go for four sections (only two at present) and end at a new chook shed that I plan to build in the middle of the vegie garden. I hope to have four chook-yards fenced off and rotate the chooks around the yards seasonally, following the vegie plantings after their harvesting has finished.
The tall gum trees in the background are the start of my native garden, about 2.5 acres of natural bush.
I know I am really blessed with this place I call home.