It’s the same way with what some of my new Australian friends are saying about Christians. “They want to tell you how to live, but they don’t want to change themselves.” I haven’t heard that quote quite that directly, but that’s the sentiment I seem to get when someone’s honest with me.
So I went to Bunnings and bought mulch. I brought it home and pulled weeds starting at the end of the front garden that had the least weeds and the most lizards. I enjoy an occasional lizard poke out of the plants to tharn (ie stare at me with fear) for a second and then scurry back into hiding. It’s less overwhelming and more enjoyable to start where it’s easier to make a change.
I poured out 120 litres of Eucalyptus mulch over the semi-weeded area in the lizard zone.
I also weeded around our food plants in the back. Then, I spread a 30 litre bag of moisture retaining mulch around strawberry plants, Thyme, shallots/spring onion, kale and some lettuces, potato, and two choy sums I planted from roots in our refrigerator. Oh, I also mulched this around a lemon tree that looks pretty bad and it seems is under chronic ant attack. Bizarre. I found four dead slugs in the jar of honey/borax I left by the tree to kill/deter ants. No dead ants. I threw the jar away after I licked some of the honey. Just kidding.
I also removed some huge branches (hacked up with my rusty box cutter) from the palm type tree and the purple flowering tree. I threw them on the ground to dry in the sun so I can tear them up for mulch later. I also worked in the compost heap. There were some old, dead branches and bits of Grevilia tree. I hand mulched these and covered the food scraps and lawn clippings we’d piled up in one spot. It was quite a relief to bury the slimy, rotting pile of food scraps before we attracted rats or even ravens.
Here are some pictures of some of what I just described:
Food plants in the back:
Hacked off palms/POMs:
The lizard area in front. Can you see the big one?
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