Just a note to express my gratitude and amazement at the phenomenal success I've had in my garden bed and backyard by using Natrafert as a soil conditioner in the garden beds.

To begin with, I have to say that after moving into a new home at Neerabup, whose backyard was never landscaped, 2 years of neglect had it looking more like a jungle of weeds and sand than anything else. Eventually it became such an eyesore that it had to be cleaned up and some sort of landscaping was in order. As most quotes exceeded the $3000 limit I'd set for the project, I decided to cajole and bribe some friends into the job and we'd have a go at it ourselves. As it turns out it was an excellent idea, my friends all unstintingly gave their time and thoughts to the layout and one of them suggested Natrafert for the garden beds after one look at the sand that was supposed to be used for the gardens.

To cut a long story short - we laid out the garden beds, mixed in a trailer load of Natrafert, put in garden edges, laid reticulation for the beds and the lawn and planted a huge assortment of plants. Everything from natives like kangaroo paws and wattles, a fig tree, a lemon tree, 4 climbing rose bushes, 6 floribundas, some gardenias and heaps of seedlings for the borders such as snowflakes and an assortment of petunias. As a mad chilli eater I couldn't resist Bunnings special on chilli seedlings so 6 of those went in as well and they were the real stars of the show. There was also 110 square metres of lawn laid as a finishing touch!

After 3 months the garden was just magnificent and friends couldn't believe how different the backyard looked and how well everything was doing. The notoriously fickle roses absolutely loved the conditions and flowered like mad - I have trouble keeping them trim and tidy. Snapdragon seedlings were planted with the roses and flowered magnificently as well. But the seedlings that outstripped them all were the chillis, after 3 months they were knee height and at 4 months they were budding and producing chillies. They ripened within a fortnight and were huge and quite warmish, and as the plants age I'm hoping that the fruit will progress to HOT! I recently went on holidays and cleaned the bushes of all the ripe chillies before I left so they wouldn't drop off and go to waste. After coming back from a mere two week absence the bushes were absolutely loaded with chillies. I gathered over two dozen ripe chillies and there were half a dozen or so that had withered and dropped off the bushes. What am I supposed to do with all these chillies? My garden helpers will be the first to sample the goodies that's for sure, I hope they like hot food!

So thanks to my friends for the help to get the backyard done and thanks to Natrafert for ensuring in was not done in vain and for the prosperous garden that has resulted!