Julie it seems that I have not shown the "garden" which is nothing more than fenced off area with a gate. You can see the small lemon tree near the gate. Now I am assuming it was an old garden rather than animal pen because we found an old spade, some old pots, a couple of bordered areas that could be garden beds and a rose and passionfruit vine growing on the fence. The other thing is that it is fully fenced with chicken wire to the bottom on all sides which I guess is to keep the rabbits out.
A fenced off area, yet within your block. Maybe it was a combination of orchard AND chook-pen. 'Free-range' in the days prior to hot-housing. I bet that gate is wedged so hard into the earth that it would take a tractor to close it. What is in the concret tub: looks like some sort of succulent, but too small to discern.
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The tub is full of old rubbish, including something that looks like it might have been a bag of chook food with a jug cemented into the hardened grain, so I agree might have been a chook pen but not an orchard, the fruit trees are outside of the enclosure. Have not tried to move the gate.
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