Tag: irrigation
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Last month in Ligaya Garden Nov/Dec 2019

The weekly updates were proving a bit tricky, so I’ve opted to do a bigger, monthly update from now on… All of the posts will be listed here on this page for your elucidation and convenience. Catching up Things got a bit out of whack in the garden over the last month. We’ve all been…
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Last week in Ligaya Garden #8 and #9

A double edition because I got too carried away with other stuff. Food Underfoot 2019 (Gawler’s premiere weed walk) was a huge success with 3 attendees. We were given some solar gear to improve our setup, Lots of new shelving and a book purge completed the weeks.
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Busy times…
It’s been a busy week here. I’ve added a second tap in the front yard and divided the drip irrigation into three, smaller, sectors each with its own tap. This should make water use a lot more efficient next Summer as we can easily isolate parts of the garden now in case the weather gets…
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Click! and we’re done.
With one final ‘Click!’ the irrigation system for the front garden is complete! We have a drip irrigation system in place that runs primarily from the two rainwater tanks in the front garden. That gives us 1750 litres to play with. They are connected to the tanks at the back of the house too…
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Summer Goals 2017
Summer is nearly upon us so it’s time to work out some goals for the upcoming season. As you can see from the photo, we had some pretty big sunflowers last year, so it goes without saying that we want even bigger ones this year. The seeds from the largest of the last crop…

