This blog is an ongoing record of the produce that has made it into and out of the yet unamed rasied garden bed. If you want the full history of how it came into being I have another blog which you can read at your leisure. For now sit back and relax and enjoy the.........actually don't sit back & relax. Throw me a few comments, opinions & advice and let me know what you are doing. It runs in reverse chronologial order from the top down so if you want the early stuff scroll to the bottom and head on up.
Cheers
Mankimbo
Jan 2011
Quite a large gap in time and also produce. I continued to grow letuce but added in tomatoes, basil, purple beans, eggplant, lebanese cucumber, lebanese zucchini, a few beetroot, eschallots, leeks, 3 varities of chilli plants and a capsicum.
Nov 2010
Honey, honey, the rains are here! The good thing about the 20 year flood was that it showed me where the water would pool and I could take steps to alleviate that for the future.
September 2010
One day you have 6 broccoli in the ground ready to turn into gourmet superfood and the next they go to seed. All of them!!! And the lettuce and the bok choi. The garlic soldiered on as did the sunflowers.
August 2010
Hmmm, Sorting to get a little crowded in there. The carrots on the far left (south) got almost no sun and the broccoli blocked out a lot of the sun to the right (north).
June 2010
Look how nice and orderd I have planted everything. In retrospect I did not need that many raddishes. In fact I needed none. Also in the patch are carrots, broccoli, lettuce, sunflowers, english spinach, eschallots, bok choi, onions, garlic & beetroot. Check out those support posts!
February 2010
You are vieiwing North. To the South I have enormous coniferous trees which some previous owner planted and now block out my wonderful east to west sun during the winter months. However, this is the sunniest section of the property during all seasons. Those support post holes were actually dug on the wrong side of the bed. Matt, my sons guardian, dug them on the hottest day in 100 years. I waited until it had rained for a week and redug them on the other side.
November 2009
There were 2 sheds but I got rid of one
So what I would really love to have is a quarter acre block with 6-8 identically sized vege patches and a chook run with a cricket pitch running down the middle of the backyard but for now I will face reality. I have 507sqm and the house & granny flat take up 2/3 of that. The backyard is terraced and backs onto a 7metre easement (Dents Creek). Mobs of cockatoos and other native wildlife lurk in the reserve across the road which in reality is the green belt that is set aside for the F6. We work with what we have and this is what I have.
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