OffGridWannaBe
Enjoys Recycling
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Hi
Newbie here. It seems like I have been moving too much lately. 5 houses in 7 years. We have now bought so hopefully to stay. Lots of work to be done in the garden. I have an acre. All on a slope. Top lawn is terraced so will stay as lawn. It's a very small patch. A third of it very rocky and full of gum trees. Soil is not great but I know I can make it great again. Unfortunately access is a pain so it's all by hand and wheelbarrow.
So far I have dug 2 small terraces for vegetables. Starting small. Plans for chicken coop and run and planting majority of the land with edible plants and trees or green manure.
Any and all suggestions to improving the soil in an incredibly small budget are most welcome. I have access to horse manure when I can collect it so that will be collected as often as possible to compost.
I plan to eventually be as self reliant from a vegetable point of view as possible. Chickens too soon. But I'm in a suburban area so that's the most I can do for now.
Newbie here. It seems like I have been moving too much lately. 5 houses in 7 years. We have now bought so hopefully to stay. Lots of work to be done in the garden. I have an acre. All on a slope. Top lawn is terraced so will stay as lawn. It's a very small patch. A third of it very rocky and full of gum trees. Soil is not great but I know I can make it great again. Unfortunately access is a pain so it's all by hand and wheelbarrow.
So far I have dug 2 small terraces for vegetables. Starting small. Plans for chicken coop and run and planting majority of the land with edible plants and trees or green manure.
Any and all suggestions to improving the soil in an incredibly small budget are most welcome. I have access to horse manure when I can collect it so that will be collected as often as possible to compost.
I plan to eventually be as self reliant from a vegetable point of view as possible. Chickens too soon. But I'm in a suburban area so that's the most I can do for now.