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Saturday, 4 January 2014

Mobile Gardens

 
It's amazing how quickly some herbs can run amok and take over an entire bed. I have radically culled the herb garden many times, only to have it regrow in what seemed like less time than it took me to cut it all back and when I cut through the jungle I also found the more rampant herbs had overpowered the smaller and less strong kinds and they had disappeared. I figured there had to be a better solution.



Challenge accepted!!

So I started thinking about how to best contain some of these more invasive, but none-the-less important herbs and worked out that if I planted them in large half barrels that would place some restriction on how big they could grow.

 
 




The only problem was that these were quite heavy once filled with soil and plants so I popped each of  them on top of a cheap set of wheels. (About $10 each from Big W.)





Now I have a mobile herb garden and can easily move the half barrels around to suit the seasons, in full sun in winter and with more shade in summer.

I can also move them around when doing a tidy up or to make more space for entertaining, and, being raised off the ground they drain well and are easily hosed under. 

Half barrels on wheels would also be idea for anyone with restricted garden space, such as patios, balconies and courtyard gardens.

 

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