Full disclosure, I saw this on Instagram and decided to create it myself. FB Marketplace always seems to have free filing cabinets and I found this in my local village. I drilled holes in the bottom for drainage, removed the drawers, filled it half full with logs from the garden, then used soil from mole hills to fill it some more, and then good compost. The first photo shows it after I planted my herbs and the second one shows it yesterday. The flat leaf parsley has kind of taken over but the sage is still going strong. I also have thyme, chives and mint in there (although I don’t like the flavour of the mint so I will replace it in spring). I was going to spray the cabinet but actually the brown fits in very nicely.

Pick up the Quail tractor. $30 bucks from Marketplace! @Sherly Sumampong the Mrs loves her little flock. We get eggs every day too! Anyone else got Quail here?

It’s a bit over three years ago when Karin and I were blessed with a miracle of a new home. We had been displaced from our home town Byron Bay for four years. Then one day the phone rang from Northern Rivers Housing! The question was can you take care of a big yard? You all know the answer to that one! I thank Jesus all the time for this place. And now I am thanking him for helping me put this community together! First photos was when we arrived to what you see now: Happy Gardening Marty Ps: and let’s not leave out my lovely wife Sherly Another blessing.

This a photo of my backyard today! It’s been around 3 years in the making. Loving every day and feeling truly blessed! Please share your garden images here I know myself and the members would like to see them!

Do any of you cultivate - or at least deliberately leave alone when they pop up - particular weeds? Which ones? And what do you use them for? I love to see dandelions, with their sunny yellow flowers and puffball seed heads. We eat some of the young leaves in salads, but that's about all I use them for at this stage. I'm hoping to add some chickens into our system in the not too distant future, so I keep some around for future poultry forage. Also, I keep a good supply of broadleaf plantain, which I squish up the leaves of, and apply to insect bites and minor cuts. Alongside that, I cultivate tree lettuce - also knows as Timor lettuce, Indian lettuce or Chinese sword lettuce. It's edible, but self-seeds VERY enthusiastically, so it really can get out of hand! But it's also a great pain killer. Get a cut working in the garden? Easy - grab a broadleaf plantain leaf and squish it up onto the cut. It will help in healing the wound. Once it's no longer bleeding, grab a piece of Timor lettuce leaf and squish it up and put it on the wound for a while. It acts as an effective mild pain killer. Both of these are also great as poultry forage. Occasionally I'll leave a few little patches of purslane, since it's edible and gives a bit of zing to salads. But there's other tastier plants that I have in good supply and I'd rather eat those. What about you; who do you welcome into your garden, that others would show the door?