haha wood be, if it wasn't a rental property. My logic - Tomato plant can be re-homed or just discarded and will produce tomatoes quicker than a lemon tree.
Nice. I'm currently thinking about liberating a little equity myself, so I can bury part of the front lawn under about 20sqm of concrete. Although I'm also going to bury it under some walls and a roof too - I'm going to push the lounge and dining area out a bit further to bring the room up to about 60 sqm.
This is true, a lemon tree would take a very long time to produce tomatoes Great thread will post my own when its finished
Change of plans with the concrete, looks like it's getting done this weekend. The bloke doing it has had another job pull out so he's doing my place on Saturday.
I'll throw some pics of my backyard up this weekend. I ended up biting the bullet and getting an inground fibreglass pool earlier this year and have been slowly doing the landscapeing over the last 6 months. Been doing a heap of stuff myself, the prices tradies charge is ridiculous, I've done most things for about half the price. It's turned out surprisingly good, with most family members wondering how I managed to do it without fking it up lol. It's extremely satisfying when you move out of your comfort zone and finish a project that you had no idea how to do before starting
Nice.. looking forward to the pics... My family all use the one Bunnings account so get a very good discount from them, esp on timber.. look on trademe etc at an out door table.. whhhhaaaat 4-500 bucks, meh build that for 150
Pics are in. I've tried to take photos from the start to now to give you an idea of how run down the back was. Seriously, it was almost at the point of getting a drip torch on to the bastard. This is from the side gate looking towards the back. From the back looking towards the side gate (I don't seem to have a disaster zone picture) Half way up the slab looking backwards The concreter still has to come around and do some expansion cuts because there's a tree next door that will likely crack the slab if he doesn't. I might see if the owners can remove it, it's just some piece of **** thing that just drops leaves everywhere and clogs gutters. Now I just need to clean the beds out, remix have them and then next step is another coat of paint on the pergola and then redo the timber slats (if you look at the pics you can see where they've been removed from) and then it'll be time to get stuck into the top section over Christmas.
No going to lie, I am green (pun indented) with envy your lawn looks like that. Out the back I originally had a nice fine, soft Santa Ana. But then I got the dogs and now it's a disaster zone. I've since taken some runners from our the front, where I have a broad leaf couch that spreads like crazy and started transplanting it out back. Seems to be doing the job but it just won't be such a lovely fine blade grass.
**** that is a massive improvement Troy.. As to the neighbours tree, other methods are.. A: drill hole in it, full with roundup, watch tree die in weeks.. B: nail copper nails into it, watch tree die over xmas, new years period :smoking:
That's just nasty, I'd never do that...however, I did find some roots once that were causing issues for our hedge, so I cut the roots open and poured in some Roundup to kill them off. In unrelated news, a neighbour's tree, which was blocking a lot of sun from our house that he refused to trim, died some time around then too. I'm sure there's no correlation. *cough*
I got around to redoing the timber on my screen out the front. It was a good chance to see how the EcoDeck stuff looks as a finished product. I will have a chance in the next few weeks to get some more out the back on the pergola done so naturally I'll post pictures when it's done.
I have a major problem with cocos palms on the neighbour's block. Thirteen of the mongrels all along our fence line. Anybody know how to kill the bloody things apart from cutting off the crowns?
I've done that in the past with a nuisance gum tree in my former neighbour's yard, with great success, and they never suspected a thing. I'd thought of doing it this time, too. The problem is that there are 13 of the mongrels and some are very mature. Having them all start to die at the one time just "might" look a little sus. Also, palms have extremely fleshy trunks with massive amounts of water and I suspect that it would take gallons of poison to kill each one. I might try it on one or two of the smaller ones first to see if it works. The mess these things create in strong westerly winds is unbelievable. The dead fronds that haven't fallen off, shred in the wind and blow all over our yard and into the pool. I've spoken to the elderly residents who are a decent old couple, but she loves her palms. I hate the bastards. They are just gigantic weeds. Think I'll toddle off to get that Roundup and play urban assassin.
sooooooooooo almost two weeks later, the last few days I may or may not have completely forgotten about these.. BUT.. i r appi. Looking forward to these growing up and providing nice juicy ma'toes.
