September October 2023 Garden News

 

Two months without a drop of rain, it is so disheartening to see the garden so drought stricken.

We have managed to use tank water until a couple of weeks ago but now we must rely on town water, not looking forward to the water bill.

In fact, the whole of this year has seen little good rain, despite BOM saying summer was going to be very wet.

We have been busy with a bus trip in September from Helensvale Senior Citizens Club and of course two days a week watering trying to keep the garden alive.

In October we visited Caboolture Garden Club and gave the ‘Aroids in the Giving Garden’ presentation then after that we visited our friend at Elimbah where we bought some fertilizer (Crop King 88) for $32 a kilo bag, here it is over $44.

Caboolture Garden Club then visited our garden the following week and that same week Glebe Garden Club visited.

 

So that was 14 bus visits this year, we are going to slow down the garden presentation as I cannot stand driving through the city any more.

We now must get ready for the Tropical Foliage Festival where we will be selling plants.

A big job was to remove the old thatch roof and put a new one on.

We went to Nursery Traders and found this amongst a few plain green ones, all at $50 so we bought this one and all the staff were incredulous that they failed to see it.

I think we had a bargain.