Originally just the four raised garden beds atop the flattened hill, the veggie garden quickly grew to become the number one destination on the garden tour.
First step was to clear the site and level out the top of the hill to create the space for the garden beds.
Like the rest of the house site, the garden site needed to be cleared and then leveled before we could start to plan out the garden beds. This photo is looking out at the garden beds from approximately where the Court Yard now is:
The first few garden beds where created as an experiment. Consideration was given to creating wicker garden beds but in the end we opted to create beds filled with soil:
This is how it started and how it ended up:
Growing vegies in a bush block can have its challenges, none the least are the local residents who like to pay a visit
It wasn’t until 2020 that we put a rabbit (kinda) proof and kangaroo fence around the house site that we could start to be more confident in waking up in the morning to find our plants hadn’t been nibbled on during the night.
We considered putting an elaborately designed iron fence around the veggie garden before settling on the chicken wire fence that goes around the 4 acres of the house block. A few things lead us to that approach, the first was it solved the broader problem of trying to grow plants in the house block, the second was not only did we need to keep the rabbits and roo’s out but it was really useful to be able to keep our dogs in without worrying about them escaping to pay a visit with the neighbours. Finally and the thing that really tipped us over the line was that view from the kitchen to the garden remains unimpeded – that sense of from garden to plate is really a lived experience when standing in the kitchen area and been able to look out to the garden to think about what to cook next.
Three Hills Garden 