Services
Productive and ornamental gardens in the sub-tropics.
Now based in Imbil we service Gympie, Mary Valley, Kin Kin, Cooroy and Tewantin, and everywhere in between.
Garden maintenance & designs
- Installing and revamping gardens
- Weeding, pruning, hedging
- Pest prevention and control
- Fertilising, mulching & composting
- Design from the ground up
Heavier Duties
- Brush cutting
- Mowing & lawn care
- Irrigation
- Water blasting, leaf blowing & gutter blowing
Helping Hand
- Motivation & Advice
- Research & referral
- A successful tree change: it’s not as simple as sowing some seeds and buying a few chooks and living off the fat of the land. A plan will help ensure success.
Our Latest Design
LINVILLE COMMUNITY GARDENS CONCEPT PLAN
Garden Design
- a productive garden
- a community & volunteer hub
- a tourist attraction
- market stalls
Jean’s Cottage Garden
Jean’s cottage garden codebreaker – PDF 95KB
Satisfied clients
Qualifications
Certificate IV in Horticulture
(Wide Bay TAFE) 2008
Certificate IV in Small Business Management
(Mission Training) 2010.
QLD Government Blue Card certified for working with children and young people.
ACS Education – Certificate in Garden Design (ongoing)
Short Course, Market Garden Planning (Mary Valley Harvest Co-op)
Fully insured
Why organic?
I see man-made chemicals / poisons as the absolute last step in solving gardening problems (weeds and pests etc).
This is for many reasons:
- Organic solutions solve more than one problem at a time
- Preparing and spraying chemicals is just as time consuming as preparing and using organic solutions. Chemicals also cost so much more money – not to mention the health risks
- Organics promote life in the garden, chemicals promote death – not only of unwanted plants and pests, but also of the soil.
- Chemical drift is a serious problem – you might want to kill the weeds, but your roses won’t take kindly to the spray.
- Use your waste to make compost, not landfill. Alternately, use lantana leaves to make an aphid deterrent, or soak weeds to make a plant tonic.
- Overall, organic pest and weed control strategies will feed your soil and your plants, making healthy crops and gardens. Chemicals will kill more than they they set out to do.
Gardening gift vouchers
Give someone you love the gift of me spending time improving their garden.
Community
KIN KIN STATE SCHOOL
In 2009 floods washed away the kids’ veggie patch at Kin Kin State School. I began volunteering at the school then – working with the kids, teachers and parents to rebuild and expand the patch. And what a great team they are !!!
We then applied to the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation for funding – and were successful. Growing, harvesting, preparing and eating organic food is now a weekly part of the school’s curriculum. The Program is a multi-award winner, including Noosa Slow Food’s Snail of Approval, Sunshine Coast Council Glossy Award – Best Edible Landscape (non-residential), and Most Mis-shapen Vegetable (Noosa Country Show).
Since early 2019 my husband Steve has been the Kitchen Specialist. Every Friday the students grow and harvest food for the weekly community lunch.
Please contact Kin Kin State School directly if you want to donate or volunteer, on 07 54854168
Also Noteworthy
3 years contracted by multi award winning Wasabi Restaurant, producing organic foods at their Honeysuckle Hill farm (fruit, veg and perfect garnish leaves and flowers)
Design + install Kin Kin Community Arts Hall Gardens, incorporating Broadcroft Design planters.
Get in contact!
Keith Gilbert - The Plot Thickens
Steven Young
0490 803 221
or use the form below to send a message.