Category: Heating/Cooling
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Starting the Mulberry arbor
Last year (was it that long ago?), we decided to build a little verandah to protect the lounge room window. But I had a thought (and a decided lack of cash) when looking out one day at our ‘dwarf’ Mulberry. This dwarf tree reaches 6-8 metres every year and we lose a lot of berries…
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Summer pages
The heat’s starting to hit. We have plenty of tips to help get yourself and your garden through it.
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Tall trees
Things are always evolving at Ligaya Garden. When we started Ligaya Garden, we had no protection from the Sun on a Summer afternoon. To get relief from that, we planted our row of deciduous trees and let them grow really tall. We do lose some of the fruit every year to the birds but its…
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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 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…
