The free packet of Diggers seeds gave us a colourful crop of tomatoes - Green stripey tigerellas, Black krim, yellows, lots of cherry tomatoes. I swapped some cherry tomato seedlings for a friends big red Gross Lisse. Some self seeded tomatoes came up near the fence and produced the best crop - they would have been a supermarket bought hydroponic ones.
The Black Krim variety was excellent.
Fires near Meredith - 10th and 11th January
Water carrying helicopters up and down past our Buninyong Garden.
Small kitchen gardens, just outside the back door, ready to go for a very fresh salad...
Italian Lollo lettuce (pick as you go), Cherry tomatoes, basil, coriander.
The Greywater system at Buninyong Garden is by New Age Water (unfortunately, this local company has gone out of business).
It is connected to the two showers, and has a timer inside it so that any unused greywater is dumped to the sewer within 24 hours (which is a requirement of the Ballarat City Council).
Special soap that is ok for the environment is used, Green tea from Dominant.
April 2008 Update: The plan now is to make ourselves a reed bed system to filter this grey water, and get clean water into a small pond. Hoping for a frog habitat out of this.
2022 Update
All pumps have now stopped working, and it is a major effort to remove the pumps as they are riveted to the bottom of the sump space.
Investigating a simpler set up, with water diverted to sewer, but can be switched to a sump and pumped to plants in the season of major drought.
Onions and garlic have been harvested, and some of them made into a curry.
