My mate Addy and his wife and kids are denizens of western Sydney as well and have been for years, but he has only got the food growing bug recently. I am amazed what he has done with the 14 metre by 3 metre space beside his unit, and his small 4 metre by 6 metre back yard – in just 6 months! Long narrow sites have their own challenges especially with shading and orientation but it is a credit to him that he has gotten this far in just six months.
One neat little invention is that he has a hole through his side fence which allos access to the chook laying area on the land next door. That way, to gather the eggs in the morning he just has to walk into his back yard and reach through, rather than walk all the way down through the house and back up the side again to get them.
They truly have an urban oasis here!
Horizontal tube garden under construction
Compost
Worms
Chooks!
Tool Storage area
The backyard
The chook holes
And eggs!
