New look grow beds and benches

[alpineart]

Hi Rod , Thanks Mate

Hi Mr Bougy Fan , plenty of plants and material here , but its been neglected for so long its hard to tell the weeds from the works . Every faults a feature even in bonsai .

Cheers . Alpine

[Bush bunny]

The soil looks good too. Well done.

[alpineart]

Hi Bush bunny , the general make up of the soil here is shale and clay . When i purchased the property i terraced the entire block and over the next 10 years spread 25 tonnes of Pine bark and Euca mulch yearly just to get a good covering of compost . This was raked up and created the grow beds but i could still use 10 tonnes of quality decomposed manure to top dress everything .

Some of the mulch is water repellant which is no good for grow beds , but good for a life time supply of Myccorhizaefor the pines and cedars i grow .

Cheers Alpine

[fiveoffive]

love it mate. i'll have to come look

[alpineart]

Hi Fiveoffive , more than welcome anytime . I'll be a happy bonsai bloke when its all finished , thats for sure .

Cheers Alpine

[alpineart]

Well the hard yakka continues

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, this has been a major battle , I managed to break my old trailer and bend an axle on the new one i just built in my spare time , but at the end of the day I'm a happy chappy . Another few days , some running repairs on the trailer and it will be time to start planting the grow beds out .

Cheers . Alpineart

[Bougy Fan]

Wow looks awesome

[Phoenix238]

That's looking stunning!

[alpineart]

Hi Fella's , it will take some back filling but i will have double the growing area after completion to allow the tree's more root run . The top of the wall will double as a grow/display bench . Not looking forward to pointing up the face or the next set of steps but someone has to do it .

Cheers Alpine

[fredman]

WoW I love that wall man. Beautiful. Makes all the hard work worth it

[kcpoole]

Looking good Alpine, but what I wanna know is when the heck do you have spare time to build a new Trailer too!!!

Ken

[Gumnuts]

It looks amazing .Should last forever

[alpineart]

Hi fredman , a before shot

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,mate todays effort makes it worth every injury i have pushing my limits and beyond the pain barrier.

Hi kc , mate it took 5 days to build my trailer using a ute tray

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and 3 seconds for the loader operator to bend the axle .I needed to carry the rock and conmix in something , so i had no choice .

Hi gumnuts , mate the sleeper edge lasted 20 years so this should go forever , in my time anyway .

A well earned break from laying rock .I prepared one of the area's ready for some digging of the crab apples

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A quick hack and chop , root prune and plant out

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Not one to slacken off , I re-arranged a few works in progress which needed this new home

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Tomorrow it's back to the rock work or maybe planting out some cherries and Chinese Elms .

Cheers Alpineart

[Boics]

Looking awesome Alpine.
You must be proud of this!

[MoGanic]

Absolutely inspirational stuff mate. Well done. This is blood sweat and tears right here and what we're made to do.

Cannot express how impressed I am mate, again, well done.

Regards,
Mo


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