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In Reply to: RE: Nice garden .... posted by three_sox on November 06, 2009 at 17:07:36
lovely to look at and walk on, but water is no longer cheap down here, nor is it plentiful.
I'll admit I'm a bit ahead of the pack with the mulching, but I'm not entirely on my own. It is an approach promoted by the ACT government.
Curved beds and swaled tops for the back garden, isn't new either! But it is hardly common around here.
I'll soon be mulching the W and SW sides of the house with about 80mm of crushed concrete over thick layers of newspaper, effective in reducing evaporation, and it won't burn either.
Note that we've found that wood-chip mulched gardens aren't as fire-prone as was once thought. And, being at ground level they don't tend to blow around. And, you can damp them down - given enough warning.
It's the big piles of undistributed mulch that are an issue. Once alight you have a local source of embers, just add wind.
Warmest
Timothy Bailey
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio Scrounger
And gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
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