Category: Gardening
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Madeira Vine (Anredera cordifolia)

Lots of folks ask about the ‘plant covering the middle arch’ and this is it. Madeira Vine (Anredera cordifolia). We put a Madeira one in last year because it ticked all the boxes for a very useful plant. Madeira Vine is a vigorous climber that could provide Summer shade, needs little looking after, and it…
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What’s next in 2021?

The big jobs are slowing down but there’s still so much to do at Ligaya Garden.
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Furl the sails

It looks like it’s time to furl the sails for the cool weather. We only have a narrow back yard, just on 4 metres and it bakes in Summer. So I put up some posts and washing line cable and made 4 sails of shadecloth that we can rollout in Summer and back again in…
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A new mod for the aquaponics.

A simple modification to one of the aquaponics filters should resolve a problem when adding fertilizer.
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A very technical greenhouse

The new greenhouse (or, as Marlon calls it, ‘outhouse’ because of its semblance to an old fashioned outdoor dunny) is up and running. It’s a bit of a rush job but I’m proud of it. I whipped it up so that it was finished before the Adelaide Edible Garden Trail came out to do some…

