Blog Calendar
-
Recent Posts
Categories
Archives
-
Join 110 other subscribers
- Follow Alan Mackenzie's Blog on WordPress.com
Blog Stats
- 138,205 hits
Meta
Category Archives: Garden
Mini camera for DIY possum dray – part 1
Doing some research to see if we can mount a camera to view the inside of the dray.
Posted in Garden, Home, Pets, Possum Dray, Possums
Leave a comment
DIY Garden Edging – part 4 final
Waited all morning for the sun to come out which it did around midday – let’s get out there. Below is a photo of the finished job. Hang on… why is left stake inside the edging and the right one … Continue reading
Posted in Garden, Garden edging, Home, Projects
Leave a comment
DIY Garden Edging – part 3
Nice sunny day so let’s paint the edging. Preparing to start painting.
Posted in Garden, Garden edging, Home, Projects
Leave a comment
DIY Garden Edging – part 2
Clamped two lengths of pine to the work bench to keep everything straight and level for stapling down the coat hanger wire.
Posted in Garden, Garden edging, Home, Projects
Leave a comment
DIY Garden Edging – part 1
This is the 3rd time I am replacing the ‘treated’ pine edging purchased from Bunnings. Back in 2019 council contractors cut down our lovely nature strip tree, apparently it was infected? Just needed a spray on one branch.
Posted in Garden, Garden edging, Home, Projects
Leave a comment
DIY dray for our ringtail possum family – Oops
Forgot to include a emergency exit – back door! If a cat, fox, snake or whatever knocks on the front door there’s no way for them to escape!
Posted in Garden, Home, Pets, Possums
Leave a comment
DIY drey for our ringtail possum family – part 5 final
Ready to put out so now we wait and keep checking for a empty drey. Last year they vacated in July.
Posted in Garden, Home, Pets, Possums
Leave a comment
Al’s auto fill/recycle bird bath–some alterations
The birdbath is close to the workshop so decided to do away with the car battery and bring all the electrics inside and run from a 12V power supply. Loosing light and then had a double injury to the right … Continue reading
Posted in Bird Bath, Garden, Home, Projects
Leave a comment
Tomato plants
This year our tomatoes (5 plants in a ALDI garden box) are looking worse than they did last year but… here’s todays quick pick.
Posted in Garden, Home
Leave a comment
Rose black spot problem
Yates ROSE GUN not working on black spot effected rose Looking quite sad
Posted in Garden, Home
Leave a comment