Creating a low plant garden
Recipe:
- A handful of hand chosen Tree Aloes
- Compost to plant with
- Bidim cloth to cover the soil
- Slabs of slate stone or slasto stone
Beat The Drought: Water Zoning practices to ensure conservation
With water restrictions looming and water shedding in various municipal areas, it is a great idea to become familiarised with ways to create an efficient watering system. If you've prepared for the summer with rainwater harvesting containers like Jojo Tanks and proper tools for administering water wise solutions for your new or existing garden, it is important to be sure your garden is designed to maximise water usage
Beat the drought: Getting the most out of your JoJo Tank
Time to fine tune your rainwater harvesting skills. If you missed our previous posts on tips for your JoJo Tank - you can find them here. Otherwise, you can read on for a few quick tips on how to make sure you're running at 100%
Beat the drought: Summer Rejuvenation the Eco Balance Way
With the holiday season looming, if your garden has suffered over the last couple of months due to the drought and water restrictions, then you'll need to aggressively implement a strategy for bringing your plant life back to a healthy state. Part of this is ensuring that your plans for January and February consist of not only water retention, but also efficient splitting, dividing and pruning to make sure ever square meter of garden is maximising intake.
Beat the Drought: Watering with Mulch
Mulched soils are the perfect arena for healthy plant growth. Especially in a drought, all that water retention is deeply appreciated by plant roots. While it is still necessary to water plants, if you've been a recent buyer of a Jojo tank unit and have commenced rain water harvesting, you can easily target root zones with your reclaimed water.
Rainwater Harvesting Installation
Beat The Drought: How Mulch can be the difference
In this dreadful season of drought, it is important to understand the role of mulch and the basic need of its benefits for not only your plants, but the soil that feeds them. Its benefits are quite vast to cover in one post, but we'll unpack your soil first and then we'll point to specific drought indications that could potentially creep up in the coming summer months.
Gardening for Growth: Garden Pest Control and Splitting the Landscape
A key factor in setting any garden up for healthy sustainability is the attention to potential threats and opportunities that creep up throughout the garden lifecycle. A professional gardening service always performs key checks to ensure invasive plants and or animal species aren’t propagating in your garden beds.
Three Major Benefits Of A Professional Garden Maintenance Plan
There are huge benefits when utilising a proper garden maintenance plan - including not just how your garden looks, but is more in tune with how a planned ecosystem can create a longer lasting garden. With proper moisture retention, an efficient and eco friendly irrigation system and the proper balance of indigenous plants that rely on the seasonal whims of our beautiful North Coast, you can have an asset to your property that will enhance value and add character to your experience.