Early last week some different tradies arrived on the site next door, complete with a nifty and narrow machine which moved a whole lot of dirt that had been banked up near the back of the next door block.
The only access from the street was through the garage area of townhouse #1 adjacent to our backyard... so the operator of the equipment had to do some nifty manoeuvres to pick up from the pile of dirt, drive through the garage and then fill the trench between house #2 and our fence line...there has been a 6 ft drop since the initial earthworks in May,,,so the photo below shows this all filled in...
Let's step back a bit now...
Remember the sight that had greeted us when we arrived back home from NZ, way back in mid May???
Here is a photo showing the temporary fencing on our land...my compost bin and my store of stacked empty pots are corralled in next door. Now my compost bin was relocated a few days after we came home but everything else remained on the other side of the fence...
The photo below taken at the same time as the previous photo, is looking towards the front and shows the lilly pilly and the clump of bamboo, also corralled...
Well after the little earth moving machine had done its work last week this is the surprise that I got later in the day!
Yes, I know there is still a mess of pots...
But can you see where the temporary fencing is now??? Yep! The 'boys' moved several panels of the fence back and we have much of that strip of land back!!
And the huge dirt pile at the back corner has gone!!
And best of all is the fact that I can stake the tomato plants that came up on the former site of the compost bin...it was so frustrating seeing such healthy plants growing on the other side of the fence!
Here they are 'behind bars!
And here they are now...
Hmm...I still need to stake them...
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| Here he is, swivelling to manoeuvre in the tight space |
Let's step back a bit now...
Remember the sight that had greeted us when we arrived back home from NZ, way back in mid May???
Here is a photo showing the temporary fencing on our land...my compost bin and my store of stacked empty pots are corralled in next door. Now my compost bin was relocated a few days after we came home but everything else remained on the other side of the fence...
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| A healthy looking tomato plant that grew out of the bottom of the bin was a 'fatality' when the bin got moved... |
Well after the little earth moving machine had done its work last week this is the surprise that I got later in the day!
Yes, I know there is still a mess of pots...
But can you see where the temporary fencing is now??? Yep! The 'boys' moved several panels of the fence back and we have much of that strip of land back!!
Here they are 'behind bars!
And here they are now...
Hmm...I still need to stake them...
Hope you enjoy those tomatoes!
ReplyDeleteWe just love "volunteers"! I hope you get lots of wonderful tomatoes off from them. Our garden has been kind of a disaster due to too much rain this year. Although we have had one very delicious watermelon off a volunteer vine. Another beauty rotted on the vine and we were kicking ourselves for not picking it sooner. BOY that new construction is REALLY close to your house.I hope you get some nice neighbors.
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