Success in the garden! It has been a strange season so far, but none the less I have been able to harvest a bit from the garden – kale, beetroot, potatoes, lettuce snow peas, sugarsnap peas and a few strawberried!
All my hard work in the garden over the last few months is certainly paying off now – everything is growing well and I am starting to harvest some lettuce, snow peas, sugar snap peas, kale, silverbeet, potatoes and beetroot. The first lot of tomatoes are in and growing well and I have just planted [...]
The growcover is doing a reasonable job of protecting the vegies, although there are a few holes being munched in the cauli’s and brocolli’s and the two carrots that survived the chook attack, are no longer. The bitter disgusting kale is growing prolifically, lucky the chooks like it as none of us do! Nearly all [...]
Spring is finally here, the days are warming and the vegie garden is progressing, although slowly as we are still having frosts every night. In an attempt to get a headstart with some seedlings, I have started some seeds in a makeshift coldframe – white polystyrene vegie boxes covered with clear plastic. The inside temperature [...]
If we want to have any chance of providing all the vegetables for our family, expanding the vegetable garden is essential. I also found that the original bed that we made last year was too wide for me to access comfortably, so we pulled that down to make it narrower. All of the corrugated sheeting [...]
Continue reading about June 2011 – Expanding the vegetable garden
I’m actually having to trawl back through old photos to record the progress of the vegie garden. This was the garden area before we moved in back in 2009. September 2010, with the chook pen fenced and gated and the first raised garden bed put in and growing a green manure crop of barley. The bed [...]
The tomato plants are growing like triffids in the vegie garden and gave us a good harvest. Of course it would have been much greater if I had pruned and staked the plants earlier and several times in their growing season, as the plants were so heavy that much of the fruit was laying on [...]
Part of the process of increasing our self sufficiency is growing our own fruit and vegetables, and part of that is having a compost bin. We do things ‘big’ in the country, so this is the one I have made using star pickets, plastic half pallets and cable ties. The idea behind the plastic pallets [...]