Home maintenance while travelling
Submitted: Wednesday, Apr 21, 2004 at 11:58
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We plan to travel for up to 10 weeks at a time, and would like to come
home to a garden that is still healthy, and do not want to rely on anyone to maintain it.
We have recently planted native gardens in raised beds (about 35cm), with no "soil", just
rock and crushed
sandstone. We also have several native shrubs and trees planted directly into black soil around the yard.
We have not installed an inground dripper system as our garden is watered by ground water and we turn the pump off when we go away.
When the plants and trees have
well-established root systems (say 18 months) we hope to leave them unwatered while we travel.
We live in country NSW where the rainfall is irregular.
I would be interested in hearing from travellers who have left gardens to their own devices, and the results, and also from anyone who might have tips to implement in the initial stages of a native garden with the aim of self maintenance (note: I do not want to mulch).........Thanks