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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

The soil looks good too. Well done.

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

love it mate. i'll have to come look

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

Cheers Alpine

Well the hard yakka continues , 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

Wow looks awesome

That's looking stunning!

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

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

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

Ken

It looks amazing .Should last forever

Hi fredman , a before shot ,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 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 A quick hack and chop , root prune and plant outNot one to slacken off , I re-arranged a few works in progress which needed this new home Tomorrow it's back to the rock work or maybe planting out some cherries and Chinese Elms .

Cheers Alpineart

Looking awesome Alpine.
You must be proud of this!

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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