Tag: Sustainability
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It’s ours!
Our own house! We finally have a mortgage on it. To celebtate, we’ve been planting. There are now 5 citrus trees along the front, this will give us a privacy hedge that will help feed us. There are lemon, orange, mandarin, blood orange and kafir lime. Behind them are apple, dwarf almond, dwarf nectarine and…
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New look.
I added an avatar to the blog page. The pic is of my son, Marlon when he was about 7. In this pic, he is holding the day’s harvest from our 2 meter by 2 meter intensive garden bed.
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Whirlybird.
I had a ‘whirlybird’ roof ventilator installed. They make a big difference to ventilation and heat build up in the roof in summer. They also help ventilate the house in winter and prevent build up of dampness and mold. We’ve put them in our last 2 houses and swear by them. They work passively and…
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The entrance to the garden.
Finished the carport and driveway. I went with gravel so we don’t contribute as much to the urban runoff that is poisoning our rivers. The concrete at the front of bottom of the pic is the council’s handiwork.
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Birds love bulbs.
I was concerned about getting rid of all the oxalis bulbs before we put down the new driveway, but it looks like the birds moved in this morning and did most of the job for me. Thanks nature.
