Digging out the bamboo along the back fence has been an exercise in gritted-teeth determination but after about 10 hours with a mattock,12 wheelbarrow loads of the blasted roots ans stalks have been ceremoniously taken to the tip.
Worth every penny of the $18.80 boot load fee - I think there were four loads.
The canes have been retained and stripped of leaves, are drying nicely to be used to support the beans and peas.
Next there is just a few dozen to dig out behind the chook shed, but out of sight, out of mind.
As a reward for all that work, I trundled off to the local nursery and bought two red passion fruits and three miniature gardenias, the later for the front vestibule which comprises 3m-4m between the security and front doors.
Now when I dash past their beautiful scent makes me smile.
A friend came over with his lawnmower and happily cut the lawns while i went through three pairs of gloves pulling out weeds and sawing off dead wood form various trees.
Check out the excellent Sustainable Gardening Victoria advice for what else to do this month...
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