Small-scale sustainable home and garden design | Garden Design and Inspiration | Gardening Australia
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
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Mike and his partner bought an unrenovated house on a leafy Mt Colah street 10 years ago. Their garden starts on the verge with edibles, and the front yard is a thriving ‘no dig’ food forest. There’s another obvious sign that there’s something interesting going on here - a community swap stall with seeds, plants and books all enclosed in a big, old red phone box.
Mike says he’s met more of my neighbours in the last month, than in seven years!
Mike’s aim is to improve livability while caring for the planet. Mike renovated the original house to increase its energy efficiency, with solar water and solar electricity. He’s built a hardwood pergola down the west side of the house which hosts a grapevine that shades the house in summer. It’s the first of many clever structural innovations he has installed in his garden using mostly recycled materials.
Compost System:
The three-bay compost system is built from recycled roof sheets and brick pallets. Liquid from the back of the bays runs and into a well-positioned bucket. Like all the compost, this liquid is then diluted and used on the garden.
Chook House:
The chook house is palatial and has been built using leftovers from the renovation. It’s both vermin and fox proof, and he used the old front door as the human entrance.
Irrigation:
Rainwater is captured across the site, stored and cleverly distributed. Mike has four tanks positioned around the garden that collectively hold 27,000 litres of water. The garden is irrigated via overhead driplines and tank overflows are redirected to garden beds. Storm water from the driveway is redirected into a set of pipes that are re-directed into the garden.
The entire back lawn was dug up to create swales (a series of contoured ditches) designed to slow down water flow and hold it in the soil.
There’s was a rocky outcrop in the backyard where water naturally collected into a pond. Mike has since bricked in the pond, added a bathtub for an outdoor pool for the kids and then found a bathroom basin which he turned into a bird bath.
Wicking Beds:
Mike has made wicking beds from second hand bulk containers. One is used as a liquid fertiliser brewer and the other four have been chopped in half to make 8 wicking beds. The sides of the wicking beds are protected from the sun with recycled zinc aluminium panels take from a roof. The wicking beds are placed in an ‘exclusion zone’, that has been covered with netting to prevent fruit fly, possums and rats making off with the produce.
For Mike, the journey of the garden is infinitely more important than the destination. He’s learnt a lot on the way and is keen to keep learning. It’s inspiring to see what can be achieved in such a short space of time and what will follow, as Mike’s sustainable gardening journey continues to grow.
Featured Plants:
SYDNEY GREEN WATTLE - Acacia decurrens *
THYME - Thymus vulgaris cv.
PINEAPPLE SAGE - Salvia elegans
SILVERBEET - Beta vulgaris cv.
PEACH ‘FLORDAGOLD’ - Prunus persica cv.
QUINCE - Cydonia oblonga cv.
BASIL ‘PERENNIAL’ - Ocimum cv.
FENNEL - Foeniculum vulgare cv. *
* Check before planting: this may be an environmental weed in your area
Filmed on Dharug Country | Mount Colah, NSW
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Top job mate, imagination is going to save our world. I wish you all the best for your part of our future. Well done.
awwww costa makes me so happy
Beautiful
Love ur content guyz bravo…love and support from the other part of the work INDIA INDIA
I was a Concretor and welder and I have paralysis for the last 3 and half years and now can finally get outside and start doing things in spirts and been working on pot plant garden as I am in a rental. Some advice of what plants I could put around the place would be great. I already have about 120 veggies and flowers. It’s my friends place who I care for until I fell ill myself but still her as well as she helps me now.
I grew up on 20 acres and around farms and I’m finding it hard to organise myself on such a small plot
Maybe do a Permaculture course?…there is lots of info online about Permaculture too!…it will revolutionise your life!!…🤗
Have a look at Charles Dowding's youtube channel (his books are quite useful too). Lots of great advice there on no-dig gardening. He has a series on his "Small Garden" where he simulates what the average home gardener can do with a small space
Be inspired, make the power to do everything.
Wonderful
Great job bro 😎
Interessante...💯💯
Butiful video 👍
yeh i think growing edibles sounds nice
So a fence keeps the wallabies out now?
very inspiring if you use permaculture
Cringes at the to be brassica weeds on the verge. Responsible gardening needs to be a focus too. Invasives should be contained or avoided. Caster oil trees are the worst too, but thankfully I didn't see that.
These videos are getting quite repetitive.
Guy who owns his house (does gardening Australia understand* we're in a housing affordability crisis?) had the money to do significant renovations to his house and then reused a small portion of the scrap from said renovation in the garden (the rest was carted off site, much of it into landfill) which is presented as if he's some kind of an eco warrior for doing so.
The existing garden was dug up with diesel machines like dingos, bobcats or excavators. Some plants were put in. Round of applause, end of episode. Despite the mountain of cash required to achieve what was just presented the episode keeps making reference to doing it cheaply.
Would be great to see some more diversity in the content, and in the gardener's shown (they're almost always white). Given the housing affordability crisis that is fast becoming an election issue, with a large section of Australia locked out of the housing market it would probably be great to see a regular focus in the content towards gardens that are rental friendly too.
Given the average block for an owner occupier is now 700m2 with the house on top, it would be desirable if there was a lot less content from gardening Australia showing the old Australian 1/4 acre block.
More native gardens, particularly native edibles, with more first nations people would be fabulous.
It would also be great if you could stop green washing activities that are anything but. Reduce, reuse, recycle are in that order for a reason. And while we're on that, reusing something is very different from recycling it.
Would you like cheeze platter or a platter of antipasto with your whine?
@@interestedobserver587 hahaha
Understanding and appreciate your request for diversity and taking down the patriarchy is just cause, but I do think your comment is a bit premature in this instance. This segment was one of 8-10 segments in last weeks episode, and the other segments showed lots of diverse topics. I don’t think content should be cancelled because it didn’t appealing or relate to a specific individual/group . While I didn’t relate to all of the content in this specific segment, Im really interested to learn more about permaculture and still took away some great ideas that could be adjusted to fit the situation I’m in.
Definition of reparative: Capable of effecting or tending to effect repair; restoring to a sound or good state. Yes, I too find these videos quite reparative as well as incredibly inspiring. Absolutely love what he's doing with his yard. I will watch this clip again to see what ideas l can implement in my own garden.
@@sundaze3115 No one is talking about "taking down the patriarchy", whatever that's supposed to mean in this context.
This is not terrestrial broadcasting. This is not iView. This is not an episode with lots of different segments. This is RUclips video with a single subject. One that has been repeated almost identically in an endless fashion.
In the other segments that don't appear here, how many were rental friendly? How many took into account the average plot of 700m2, or apartment dwellers? How many were original content gardening Australia hasn't already covered?
Beautiful