Starting the vege garden
kathiemt on Apr 15th 2007
Over Easter my daughter and I got stuck into the rather overgrown back yard down by the rabbits’ cage. The ground was covered in wandering jew and a creeper that’s been growing over the back fence so we hacked away at it all, ripping it off the fence and yanking out of the ground and throwing it into an overflowing garbage bin and then throwing the rest in a pile on the ground for throwing out later. Our rabbits produce manure mixed with straw so we’re going to use that for mulch and for keeping the plants damp, especially since we’re in a very dry period here in Victoria currently.
Graham, Chris and I made our way over to Bunnings and bought up a heap of seedlings and came back home and Chris and I proceeded to put them in the ground. We bought what we could see in the photo I took at the Garden Show as we want to try and replicate that kind of vege garden.
So, below is our meagre start to this garden and we’ll be monitoring it closely. It doesn’t look much now, and in fact probably looks a mess but I’ve got visions of it growing like the one we photographed… I hope! KMT
Looks like we had the same thought about the same time, i started our little patch 2 weeks ago. I have never grown veggies before so it’s all new to me. Most things seem to be doing O.K.
The ongoing battle with the slugs has stepped up a gear as they seem to be sending in the crack troops, still i check each night armed with my choppers and with the frogs to back me up we seem to be holding out own.
Cheers Mark
This year I had to plant my garden a little early. We typically plant like you did closer to Easter. We have a floating garden at our cabin on Powell Lake in British Columbia. If we plant at Easter we get vegetables when we return in late May. This year the birds, Oregon Juncos, discovered our planting beds with seeds the day after planting. That was quite a battle, but I think we won. If you want to take a look go to http://powellriverbooks.blogspot.com/search/label/Gardening. drmargy
that would be interesting, a floating garden drmargy. Thanks for sharing that with us.
And thank you Mark for your comments. For me it’s not been slugs or snails but caterpillars. But with the rain we’ve just had I expect to see the others out there too. I must keep a vigilant watch and will post new photos soon.
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