Kikuyu paddock transformation in Waipu
Where: Waipu hills on Walters Rd
Size: 2 acres
Soil and climate: Wet heavy clay. windy from the south and east.
Aspect: East-facing slope
Pests and weeds: kikuyu, possums and rabbits
Design brief and overview:
Our client had a paddock that she wanted to garden & maintain herself. It was an ex-farm full of kikuyu, she wanted as much food as possible & as much native planting as possible. After consultation work began creating terraced pathways that suited the layout of her land.
Initially a kikuyu paddock, we started excavation with a digger to terrace the whole paddock into a journey of garden beds leading down to a wet area where we built a pond. The soil from the pond was used to ‘mound’ fruit tree positions and we used the water from the pond to irrigate the whole garden which was pumped to a header tank on the hill and gravity from there.
