Do you want to grow your own
vegies but just can't get started? Here is a great way to produce a
real, valuable vegie crop in a small space, Scotsburn's own
Magic Square
Garden.
Why?
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Healthy fresh produce grown in
your own back yard.
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Raised garden to save you bending &
kneeling.
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Big enough to sustain a valuable
crop.
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Small enough to fill a sunny
corner.
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Instanto!
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A great introduction to the joy
of vegetable gardening.
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What is it?
What do you Get?
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A charmingly rustic fruit
produce bin, many come complete with the odd mummified apple.
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A seasonal selection of
vegetables and herbs fresh from our nursery. Recommended retail
value of the seedlings alone is
$50.00!
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Quality, fresh food with
fantastic flavour.
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Yes that's right it is all
included.
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What are the Options?
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Option 1.
The empty produce bin lined with weed
mat to keep the goodness in and prevent your vegies from drowning. We staple
the liner in place, once the bin is full of soil it won't move anywhere.
Follow this
link for my sure fire, do-it-yourself Magic Square Garden soil recipe.
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| Pick up from our nursery in
Keysborough. |
$105.00
(Prices include GST) |
| Delivered to your home (Metro
Melbourne) |
$185.00
for the first bin
$115.00 each for additional bins |
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No you don't get to keep John, he's
far too valuable |
Option 2.
Ready to go. Fully prepared
bin with Debco potting mix and we'll do the planting for you or
we'll give you a professional planting lesson on the spot!
(That's 33.333x30l bags of potting mix, more than $400.00 worth of
seriously top quality Debco potting mix)
By the way these three gardens are on a seventh (that's 7th) floor
balcony! Yes we can. |
Pick up from our nursery in Keysborough
but let's face it you will need a forklift. |
$300.00 |
| Delivered to your home |
$390.00
$325.00 each for additional
bin |
What about optional extras?
Just some good ideas and great suggestions that we have implemented.
We're happy to listen to any other suggestions you might have.
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Oh yes, there's a box hiding in there, you can see this
garden on display at Banksia Nurseries, Wantirna South |
| Sturdy Castors so you can
chase the sun. |
$105.00 |
Wicking Bed Kit. Plastic bin liner with
diverting hose and infill.
A "Wicking
Garden" is a passive watering system. Water is held in the base
of the Magic Square Garden and is naturally drawn up into the plants
root zone.
A Wicking Garden will save water and heaps of time
watering. Check this
article from Michael Green in The Age, Domain. Yes, we installed
Frank Fisher's gardens, in fact Frank's beds were our first wicking
beds.
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Wicking bed
kit, installed: $115.00 |
'water wand' recycling
reservoir, solar pump and drip system.
This pic was taken only a month after the garden was installed and
planted.Perfect for maintaining your garden
over school holidays. |
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Complete
WaterWand Reservoir, Seep hose and Solar pump Installed:
$380.00
NB: one pump and reservoir can service 3 Magic square
gardens. |
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Possum Proof tent. Nothing like a week at the
Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show to teach us the damage
Possums can do in no time at all (and they have a taste for HOT
Chillis). To cheat the Possums we have
developed a remarkably simple yet attractive bird netting tent to
keep pests out; Possums, White Butterflys, birds, puppies... |
Possum Proof Tent, installed:
$45.00 |
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Well if you have read this far you must be seriously
considering purchasing a Magic Square Garden so send us an
email with you name and phone number and we'll get straight back to
you to arrange the Magic Garden that best suits your needs alternatively
please call 03 9798 7066.
Download a copy of our Magic Square Garden
brochure here.
Don't accept my word!
Dear Peter,
I have my first square garden underway and
have almost filled the second box ready for planting. The first thing I
learnt was after filling the fist box with soil, compost, manure and potting
mix etc I should have let it settle before planting. It looks great and
everything is growing wonderfully but it has settled lower into the box than
I anticipated.
The second thing I noticed is that EVERYBODY
loves my square gardens. They are hardly a garden 'feature 'but my placement
in my garden has had very positive results and caused much discussion with
family on how they can be incorporated into their garden area as well. My
father has had a backyard veggie patch forever and now at 82 it is getting a
bit much for him. He hasn't been to see mine yet but both mum and my sister
are keen for him to consider them and save his back. (he had a back
operation last Nov and another scheduled for next Monday)
The kids love them. My sister offered to get
them for Miss 10yo and Miss 14yo next Christmas. Mr 2yo couldn't wait to
take scoops of dirt and help Pa fill the box, don't worry we didn't let him
near the potting mix. He is a bit small so we made him a ground level bed
and he planted beans. He was devastated that they hadn't grown by the time
mum came to pick him up but he has been back to water them and tell them to
"wake-up baby beans'. He is waiting eagerly for the strawberries to ripen
and eat them off the bush. Mr 2yo has also surreptitiously been observed
singing and dancing for the garden to make it grow. (and he hasn't even
heard of Prince Charles)
Cheers
Christine |
