Just over a year ago my amazing husband told me he was going to build a little vegetable garden in the back yard, I thought this was a great idea. I expected to come down from working in the house to find a nice little turned and planted patch. With some key items we use regularly, something small and easy to tend to (because I knew that would be my job). To my pleasant surprise I found a masterpiece that measured about 14 foot by 20 foot !! Well it flourished, as you can see in these old pictures, this was our first crop !!!
We used most of what grew, but it was all new to both of us and at the end of these crops we changed our strategy. Well, we actually let it rest for a while and then started over again. We now grow the following items and they also flourish: snow peas, coriander, spinach, bok choy, silver beet, rocket, corn and lettuce. I love just being able to pop down the back yard to cut off some fresh greens etc to add to our meals. He has also recently been testing some brewing herbs like mints and lemon grasses to have as tea, they taste amazing! Our most recent addition was some comfrey, research needs to be done on how to use this one.
A recent post in the "Diary of a Shoe lover" Blog, I wrote about the use of my old shoes as House Shoes. I really do wear these as my garden shoes, and now my chick feeding shoes.
After planting all the seedlings mentioned above, we had a tomato plant grow up by itself (above left), it just kept growing and growing and growing. It also produced lots of what we eventually worked out must be a miniature roma tomato plant. They are delicious, and we have harvested about 10 kilos from this one plant! Its at the end of its life, hopefully we can grow some vines off the seeds. Well, I am about to go and make a tomato relish with the last bucket load of them, fun fun. Actually I thin I will get Ronan to make it.
Talk soon x
Waiter, I think there's a chicken in my salad !!!!
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