Best of 2014 - Garden Ideas Australia Blogs

Hi and thanks for staying with us a Garden Ideas Australia throughout 2014 - we have been busy with other projects, but still find teime to pop back here every now and then and share the lastest about Australian Gardening Ideas.

1 - Subtropical Backyard 2014

There are some really exciting updates on how the garden has developed over the past few months - in midwinter it looks really lush and green.

2 - Sydney Fruit Baskets Detox

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3 - Where Do I buy Christmas Hampers in Sydney?

People are always coming up to me asking about where to find a good hamper in Sydney for Christmas.  I like to think that making a good hamper is really no secret and is basically all about the content - plus some clever attention to detail when presenting the hamper as a finished product.

But just as often, I see the jumble discount bin at the bigger department stores filled with an assortment of what could loosely be called hampers with big red letters screaming out a discount.  So I guess what you could ask is what is the difference between the wow factor you would love to share and the errgh factor you wouldn't even buy at 70% OFF.

For an intimate friend I would suggest going online and looking for a gourmet delicatessen that has good turnover and plenty of walk by traffic.  This shows that people actually do order and eat their lunch from the business and that it must be keeping fresh, of the moment foods and condiments.

4 - Authentic Original Christmas Hampers

Yes, it's Christmas Time - and we all know what that means!  If you rolled your eyes or yawned or approach the whole Season Greetings with a cynical or negative attitude, stop and think for a minute.  Making the difference between a joyous sharing occasion and a slow, sad nothingness is sometimes all a matter of what you actually do.

So for Christmas 2014, make a promise to actually get involved and DO SOMETHING instead of just blindly mumbling platitudes and going through the motions.  You can make a real difference in another person's heart by giving and sharing and hell, it might even lighten your own load a little....

Have a lovely Christmas and enjoy your time with your friends and family - there is only so much time to share each Christmas and making the most of the time means spending with people who mean the most to you.  Oh, and keep coming back to Australian gardening Ideas.

Brian Larkin Pullets 12 wks Old

Here are the new chickens - three white pullets 12 weeks old and three older birds 20wks.  The buff bird at the front looks a little scraggily as she is moulting.  They had just been released into the chicken pen and were finding their feet.

As you can see they began to scratch and peck immediately and sorted through the kitchen scraps we had out for them.

There is a black bird - apparently a cross with an Australrop - I have had these types previously and they make great layers.  Also, note the beetle green sheen on the black feathers - it is very striking in the morning light.

This bird was described as Grey by Brian Larkin - it has an almost tortoise-shell pattern and it will probably work well for camouflage from predators etc when it is free ranging.  

It is always exciting introducing new Birds into the flock.  Met with Brian Larkin this morning and recruited another half dozen of his birds into my flock.  Let's hope they have long and prosperous lives helping work the rainforest and are happy and productive on the egg front too!

Asked to take some images of the birds in the transport truck but was declined, as he feared they might be repercussions as people see the transport as inhumane for some reason.  I could not see why or how the conditions were not acceptable - it is tricky work moving a couple hundred chickens across the state. 

Anyway, lovely bloke and hope I don't have to buy any more for a while and the dog stays away from the girls and lets us all live in peace.

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It is always advisable:

1) To run your flock of young pullets away from older birds at least until fully mature to help avoid picking up other established diseases that your older birds might have been exposed to and most likely have developed an immunity to.

2) Treat all new birds you add to your flock with a coccidiostat via the drinking water approx 10 days after bringing them home and make sure the new birds are fed on an appropriate ready mix feed, that also contains a coccidiostat until they are at least five to six months old.

Building the Chicken Coop Stage 1

Here is the basic outline of my chicken coop making.
I have dug trenches 300mm deep, placed chicken wire around the trenches with a 450mm skirt overlapping outwards to be a guard against foxes and vermin.

As you can see, I placed bricks in the trench to act as ballast to hold the wire in place. Then I put the vertical wire across the span and tucked about 150mm of wire under the bricks. Onto this I poured concrete and mixed it so that there was coverage across all the bricks.

As you can see, it looks pretty sturdy and I hope it is strong enough to hold out foxes.

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It is a really pleasant spot for the chooks, about thirty metres out from the house and under tall trees so there is no huge heat during summer. Christmas Hampers.

Here's a view with the large Kentia I planted four years ago.