Both of my suggestions above are very fast. And you could have a garden within days if you can find the supplies. They are both starting a garden on top of your soil really. I just reread over your post and see you are going away. I suggest covering the whole area today or tomorrow with cardboard or plastic or something to start killing the grass while you are away. wood ash also helps with acidic soil. As does mortar off old bricks, just in case you happen to have some lying around. Can you find builders lime? It has to be used very lightly as it is quick and can hurt the plant roots. You can start the garden then water around the plants with water that has lime added to it afterwards when you can find some. I have very acidic soil, as low as just below 5. But after years of soil amending it is in the veggie garden 7

Another thing you could do, if you don’t live in an area with lots of slugs, is still mow down to ground level then newspaper or cardboard, then a very thick layer of wasted hay, lucerne is the best as no seeds like about a foot thick. Then put handfuls of the limited compost into hollows right where you plant a plant. I have done this as well. it works great if you have largish seedlings. The hay rots down as the plants need more root space. I don’t bother with wood sides or anything. They just harbour pests.

What I would do, and have done in the past is mow the area right to ground level. Poke a fork in and sort of broad fork if it is heavy clay.Leave the lawn clippings on top. Cover the whole area with a few sheets thick of newspaper cover with as much compost as you can get, then plant right into the ground, poking through the newspaper with the garden trowel. It is a fast way to get veggies going . Then as you can source more compost and mulch, add it around th e plants. Keep building it up through the season. can you get some Dolomites or gypsum or lime? If you can then put that under the newspaper it isn’t as good as putting down cardboard and a thick layer of compost, but it is fast. It doesn’t work if you have kikuyu. That stuff goes right through anything.

WOW, I went to the local nursery to get some seedlings to plant up my dd veggie garden. $6 per punnet. There are 8 seedlings per punnet. That is a lot last year they were $4 I grow my own seedlings but am on the spur of the moment fixing up dd’s veggie garden for winter veggies.

Was trying to share a sort of positive ish outcome to give you hope as everyone hears so many they fell and broke their hip and that was the end stories.

Hugs, hope her recovery is swift. in the last 10 years of her life my grandmother fell lots, she ended up with 3 hip replacements on the one side and dislocated her hip 7 times. She was still able to live at her home right until her death at 89.

The rest of the world have character teeth. Only America tries for that fake perfectly straight set of teeth. They are referred to as the American smile by other countries

I have only posted about things that have happened to very close people who I can confirm exactly what I am saying is true. I now know a lot off people who have had Covid. All of them vaccinated. As there is hardly anyone in this country unvaccinated. All of them had at the worst like a heavy cold. Some of them, like the speech pathologist that works with my boys spent a week in bed after each of her 3 doses of vax, but when she had Covid it was just a persistent cough. I haven’t even posted about other negative reactions like my oldest having to go to the doctor repeatedly for chest pain, but nothing was found and I never include in my posts the rumours of bad vax results, like the man who works at the local general store who a few days after his vax complained of bad leg pain, collapsed in the car park of the doctor’s office and died of a blood clot. I cannot verify if that is correct or local gossip. I get the strong feeling from this forum that people don’t want to believe me, think I am making it up or intentionally or unintentionally minimise everything I say.

Hanging Rock. From picnic at Hanging Rock Port Arthur penial colony in Tassie. heaps of books written about convicts coming to Australia through there

She has been told by a medical expert that it will be at least 6 months for some improvement, and it is not known how many years it will take.

Not in Victoria. All staff at schools, dwelp employees, medical staff, police, emergancy service workers etc had to have the booster last month.no exemptions at all I personally know many people who have had both doses, with bad reactions and who have since had covid that was milder than the reactions to the vax who have lost their jobs because they refused to have the booster. The Vic gov has just given themself an 3 month extension to their emergancy powers. They no longer need to get medical advice to justify this under their new laws they gave themselves. They are decrying the lack of the workforce, but excluding more and more fully vaccinated people from being able to work by their mandate that people have more and more boosters.

I am not talking about being vaccinated. I have stated that twice. I am talking about the booster I was directly refering to the Australian gov determining that younger people don't need a booster.

I was talking about boosters in this age group, not unvaxed. The almost girlfriend of my son has myocarditis from the booster. Her chance of getting ill from covid was greatly reduced by being double vaxed but she was forced to get the booster because of her job, a super athletic fit girl in her prime now ill from the booster. 3 of my adult children have had covid now. The ones with 2 shots had a slight snivel. That was all. the one that had the booster forced on him by his work begenning of last month has it now, and is ill, said feels like a very bad cold with aching bones. He said his whole work currently has covid. Every one of them, all triple vaxed begenning Feb. Forced to by gov mandate. It hasn't stopped people catching covid at all.

Same hospital as my sister

but the vaccine doesn't reduce spread. and the risk for heart troubles from the vax is highest in that age group, and they don't get as sick

Sending positive thoughts that the all the travel goes smoothly

You can have a box that goes with the button. The box is right beside the front door on the outside, and when the button is pushed after a fall, the message goes to emergency responders with the code for the box with a key. So they can get in My grandmother had one. In the end she was falling a lot.

thank you very helpful I also have adult children that most probably be drawing from our stored food. Just today we dropped 2 boxes of food off on front step of ds23 as both him and his girlfriend have come down with COVID. I think we are aiming for around 6 to 12 months . I have 12 months of rice, olive oil, pasta and lentils. 6 months of flour, chocolate and coffee . as for garden produce I have just finished bottling 12 months of tomatoes, and tomato products, numerous preserved other fruits etc. We grow veggies year round, the varieties change with the season. We have enough garden produce that we regularly give away to neighbours, and have the capacity to quickly increase the size if needed. I just seem to have a panicky feeling that we don't have enough

I am so so sorry

so sorry it is awful when when an elderly person starts falling. So so glad she had her button on. hugs

This news article helps explain what the reasons are for the imploding of Sri Lanka https://www.bbc.com/news/world-61028138

I am so so sorry huge huge hugs

Sending more positive thoughts

just curious How many months of food are you storing? what made you pick that length of time?

continuing to send positive thoughts for you and your parents. hugs