JAMIE DURIE FAMILY FOOD GARDEN

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1 JAMIE DURIE FAMILY FOOD GARDEN Troy and Jess have lived in their forever home for seven years now and have become more health conscious lately. In that time, in their quest to live more sustainably, Troy has become a keen gardener, teaching himself several gardening principles, including some permaculture. The different techniques he s tried have produced some good crops but with no coherent strategy he knows he could be producing a lot more. With their first baby on the way, he and Jess are extra motivated to get their garden right. Fortunately for Troy and Jess, Jamie Durie is just the person they need to help transform their haphazard veggie patches into a dream garden able to produce fruit and vegetables all year round.

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5 GARDEN BEDS Troy s new dream garden will consist of a series of big enclosed garden beds that will run down the side fences and along the back fence. Each bed will provide two months of food, giving Troy and Jess fresh fruit and vegetables all year round. In order to create Troy s ultimate garden, Jamie and the crew remove all remnants of his old garden. While a lot of old stuff is thrown in the Bingo Bin, Troy has a lot of good soil, flowers, fruit and vegetables, so these are carefully placed in tubs under the house so they can be replanted in the new garden later on. With the ground clear, the beds are built from Whites Retain-iT retaining post system. Made from high tensile galvanised steel they are simply placed into holes in the ground, concreted in and timber sleepers are slid into the grooves.

6 To fully enclose each bed, vertical support posts are concreted into the ground and horizontal posts attached around the top to create a roof frame. The gardens are terraced to accommodate the slope of the backyard and retain the nutrients in each individual bed. A sheet of plastic is also nailed to the inside of each bed wall, to help funnel water back into the garden, where it is needed most. With the frames built, the beds are filled with new soil and Troy s existing nutrient rich soil. To keep the harsh Australian sun from burning their crops, the frames are wrapped in shade cloth. Jamie alternates the colours to replicate the effect of full sun and dappled light. The shade cloths can also screen each bed from each other, so Troy and Jess can rotate crops. Once each bed is harvested they can let their new chickens out of their coop in the bottom corner of garden into the garden beds to eat up the waste and re-fertilise the soil; ready for a new crop to be planted. Jamie is careful to plant fruit and vegetables that fruit at the same time of the year together, creating a seasonal system that will be constantly producing fresh fruit and veg. Jamie also installs Whites Grip & Grow; a simple frame system giving climbing plants beans, tomatoes and peas something to climb up, allowing them to get more sun. Across the whole garden, Jamie plants hundreds of different herbs, fruit and vegetables.

7 Troy and Jess fence is part Colourbond, part timber palings. The palings that are starting to rot are replaced and then the entire fence is painted Medicine Bottle green using Taubmans Endure Exterior. The old aluminium shed is given a coat as well, so it all blends into the background of this new garden. PAINTS COURTESY OF TAUBMANS LOCATION PRODUCT COLOUR FINISH Fence / Shed Endure Exterior Medicine Bottle Low Sheen Timber Posts / Garden bed Walls Endure Exterior Brunette Low Sheen

8 PRODUCTS AVAILABLE AT BUNNINGS PRODUCT PRICE ITEM # Ryobi One+ 18V Cordless Impact Driver - Skin Only $ Ryobi One+ 18V Cordless Compact Drill Driver - Skin Only $ Ryobi 2000W 254mm Slide Compound Mitre Saw With Laser $ Ryobi Lithium+ 36V Brushless Lawn Mower 5.0Ah Kit W/ Fast Charger $ Ryobi 36V Cordless Line Trimmer Console $ Whites Outdoor 450 x 50mm Retain-iT End Post $ Whites 1900mm Grip & Grow Freestanding Plant Trainer $ Coolaroo 3.66m Forest Green Shade Cloth - Linear Metre $ Coolaroo 3.66m Sandstone 70% UV Shade Cloth - Per Metre $ Sweet Garden Organic Sugar Cane Mulch $ Pinnacle 1210 x 1440 x 1350mm Pet Cottage Chicken Coop $

9 PRODUCT PRICE ITEM # Whites 120cm x 50m x 5cm Chicken Netting $ mm Renaissance Assorted Herbs $ mm Dwarf Nectazee Nectarine $ mm Dwarf Pixzee Peach $ L Mix Avocado $ mm Mix Pomegranate $ mm Passiflora edulius Nellie Kelly Passionfruit Vine $ mm Assorted Super Foods Seedlings $ mm Backhousea Citriodora Lemon Myrtle Bush Foods Range $ mm Ballerina Polka Appla $ mm Yellow Guava $ mm Bowl Strawberry $

10 OUTDOOR ENTERTAINING AREA Currently Troy and Jess outdoor entertaining area consists of a 44-gallon drum. While this has provided a focal point for many fun nights through the years, it s time for something a little more sophisticated. Firstly, a large flat area is cut into the sloping backyard. Like the garden beds, the Whites Retain-iT system is used to create a retaining wall to hold the high sides of the yard in place. Pear trees and Lilly Pillies are planted around the top of the retaining wall, with pine bark mulch to keep away the weeds, retain moisture and regulate soil temperature; ensuring the trees grow tall and strong. The entertaining area is covered with Snow White pebbles, which not only look great, but also are easy to walk on and restrain the growth of weeds. On top of this sit a couple of smart, but durable outdoor Mimosa wicker corner sofas and a modern fire pit; perfect for entertaining friends.

11 PRODUCTS AVAILABLE AT BUNNINGS PRODUCT PRICE ITEM # Whites Outdoor 750 x 50mm Retain-iT Corner Post $ Richgro 40L Pine Bark Mulch $ Tuscan Path 20kg 20-25mm Snow White Pebbles $ Glow 80 x 80 x 23cm Cement Grey and Black Machu Fire Pit $ Mimosa Corsica Resin Wicker Corner Sofa Setting $1, L Syzygium Resilience Lilly Pilly $

12 POTTING SHED The new potting shed is a true reflection of the sustainability Troy and jess aspire to. The old Hills Hoist has been re-positioned to the back corner and re-purposed as the frame for the potting shed roof. The ground is flattened out and four posts are erected under each arm to help hold it up and a tarpaulin attached for cover. The wires of the clothesline can now be used for several different things including hanging pot plants or even hanging clothes still. Nothing is to be wasted in this garden, so an old tree trunk and the old fence palings have also been re-purposed and will now form a sturdy new potting table. To give this new shed a sense of enclosure, Dylan recycles more of the old fence palings. They re nailed to some posts to form a frame and then nailed to the uprights to form small wall. Timber pallets are attached to the fence to form a natural frame on which to hang pot plants.

13 PRODUCTS AVAILABLE AT BUNNINGS PRODUCT PRICE ITEM # Ryobi One+ 18V 165mm Circular Saw $ Ryobi One+ 18V Cordless Nail Gun - Skin Only $ cm Standard Terracotta Pot $ Northcote 11cm Terracotta Squat Pot $ Cyclone Steel Springback Garden Rake $ Cyclone Stainless Steel Garden Spade $ Cyclone 150mm Long Handle Swan Neck Hoe $ Hortex Rugged Rigger Garden Gloves $ Cyclone Stainless Steel Fork Hand Tool $ Cyclone Stainless Steel Garden Trowel $ Holman 9L Galvanised Watering Can $ mm Mandevillea Aloha Red $ mm Nephrolepsis Boston Fern $

14 PRODUCT PRICE ITEM # Grow Your Own Vegetable Seedling Punnet $

15 WEBLINKS For further information on the materials and products used for this garden, take a look at the following websites: