Stuff that’s on that I could find
Park Vibes on June 17 at Victoria Park.
Scenic Rim Clydesdale Spectacular on June 17-18 at the Boonah Showgrounds. Information on the event’s website: https://clydesdalespectacular.com.au
Lifeline Bookfest from June 17-20 at the Brisbane Convention Centre.
The Made Local Market on June 17-18 at the Brisbane Showgrounds.
RACQ MotorFest 2023 on June 18 at Brisbane Showgrounds.
– For me just chillin at home and have a family friend Bday party.
Diablo 4 and a beer or two for me. Yeah I’m a wild one.
Environmental restoration as always. Since we have had some Winter rain, with a drier forecast, I’m working on restoring a gully system that has some erosion issues. It’s not ideal to plant this time of year but Lomandra hystrix don’t mind and they should establish before it dries out.
Then I may fiddle around with some food production areas later. I’m building a bamboo wattle fence to match another one I did. Why? Because I wanted to see if it was a viable, maybe sustainable, technique. Except for the splitting of the posts but they were grown locally.
pretty sick fence, how long did that take to make? did you just find the material or buy it?
It’s been a labour over a long time, just little sessions of an hour or two here and there. Total, I didn’t count but if you took a price on the labour versus some wire shipped in from China, it’s more expensive.
The posts were felled, cut, and split maybe 2 years prior from a Gympie Messmate planting (same guy I did the gully planting for). I watched one video of “competition fence splitting” and got the idea and had a go. The bamboo is from an unwanted clump on a bamboo farm, it’s a cultivar of Bambusa textilis. It’s not too far from the picture so I cut and dragged it there, then removed branches and shortened the culm up a bit. Usually one would split the bamboo and weave it tighter but I was trying to make it “cheaper” by making the posts further apart and not splitting (less Eucalyptus wood needed, less time on culms). A traditional “wattle” has upright posts close together and uses bendy, green wood and bamboo isn’t that bendy when not split, hence the longer upright distance.
What suburbs do you do this in?
Sunshine Coast.
The gully is for a neighbour in his 80s that has had a stroke. He is a cool dude who has restored a lot of forest so I’m getting him back by growing some stuff and then planting it.
I’ve planted 163 so far, did some weeding, and reshaped the headcuts to 2:1 ramps. Hard to see from the photos but the entire thing including the slopes had been planted out by him starting from 30 years ago.
The bamboo thingy is on another neighbour’s bamboo farm.
Awesome!
Watching the Ashes right now. Probably gonna try and make it down to the Lifeline Bookfest at some point.
Have loose plans to do some frisbee golf with my videogaming mates on Sunday. Never done that before.
