Welcome to week 2 of ‘This Week In The Garden I am…….’
This week we are watering our neighbour’s garden.
Each year our next-door neighbour travels over east to visit his family and each year we look after his garden.
This year the trip for our neighbour has been particularly difficult as he has family in the bushfire affected areas of our country.
We take extra care of his front lawn, water it by hand and with a sprinkler and usually by the time he returns he has green grass out the front where once it was dry and dusty. We are mindful about watering the garden on the allocated watering days and keep an eye on the timer so as not to use excessive water.
We will apply a granular wetting agent for lawns again this week to ensure that the water we apply soaks into the sandy soil and really gets into the roots of the lawn.
We take extra care of his trees in the back garden, we have a bit of a vested interest in these trees, because we planted them, all along the boundary fences. In time, his garden will be a leafy green oasis with some really beautiful trees providing habitat for birds. You see, we ran out of room in our garden and so, in our quest for planting more trees on this planet we started planting trees at our neighbours’ place. It’s a rental property and he has the permission of the owners to plant trees and plants.
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