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Episode 3 - Bumper Vegie Patch Spring Bonanza!
In this episode:
* Whats good eating in the vegie patch now
* Diggers Seed Club Catalogue - What’s hot in heirloom vegies.
* My personal potato famine.
* Come with me on my trip to Herronswood - beautiful garden by the bay.
* The seeds of content - I boost my seed stash with new varieties.
* What I’m planting in the patch this year.
* My vegie patch renovation.
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Have a look at what is happening in the garden:
http://www.rileyjordan.com.au/digitblog/blogs/index.php?blog=3
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Here’s a picture of the parterre garden with the decorative purple mustard and artichoke foliage.
Here’s a picture of the front garden on the way up to the shop.
Here’s a link to the caged potato method that I was going to use this year
http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s2336819.htm
Instead, I decided to put them along side an edge of the garden bed where I could pull the bricks away and harvest them. I plan to lay the stalks down and then parallel to the edge of the bed and put straw on them. The variety is Dutch Cream. Here they are before being covered with about 6 inches (15cm) of soil.
Here’s the garlic, planted ready to be covered with up to 2 inches (5 cm) of soil.
List of planting in this years vegie patch:
Potato, tomatoes, beans, cucumber, rock melon, basil, parsley, leeks, lettuce, spinach, strawberries, raspberries, celery, chillies, zucchini, pepino & cucumber.
Here are some sketches of the different vegie patches and some proposed plantings.
The main vegie patch with the D Bed and the J Bed attached:
Here is the sketch for the bed near the circle:
Here is the Sketch for the bed near the Apricot tree:
Here is a link to some pictures of the main bed as it stands now, post renovation.
http://www.digitdownunder.com/digitmygarden.html
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I am aching all over with pain in my wrists and mild insanity from exhaustion of over doing it in the garden. (baby in tow well manured!) Its nice to pop on to your blog and see that i am not the only one disappearing ones life away amongst soil and seedlings. I think i have near 50 fruiting trees and shrubs on my 920sqm suburbian block now!! Whilst everyone else is scaling down the garden i am expanding i have sunlight over nearly my whole block so i have used every square inch. I figure if the drought continues fruit and veg will become so expensive we will need to grow our own and besides research says that by growing ones own fruit and veg you are infact lowering carbon emissions etc i am sure you are aware of the politics so enough justifing my obession (which is really driven by an inherent craving to eat fruit fresh from the trees as i did in my childhood-we had 400 old fashioned varieties of peaches and about 100 other fruit trees of all sorts) So i am really homesick for the trees and the fruit i had great frienships with the trees growing up -poor isolated farm girl that i was! I planted 4 more trees today (bit late in the season i know!!) I now have in my big family avacados x2, citrus x 10 varieties, strawberry guava, fijoa x2, locat, pomegranets x2, carob x2, olives x3, peach, nectarine, plum, apricot, pearx2, apple x2, blueberries x6, tamarillo, currants x2, almond, figs x2 not sure how it will go once they all grow it will a wild jumgle i think! Anyway alot of my inspiartion for my garden has come from visiting Heronswood everytime i go there i come home with renewed inspiration, and reading the fruit and veg book they put out... consequently i have very little lawn left in fact none in the front and only a small amount in the back.My passion extends to plants of all sorts flowering perrrienals roses vegies herbs etc etc is no end to it!! So I fully understand that the seed shop is like being in a lolly shop and the delema of which to choose!!! Its a great day out i love the place. hi to all fellow gardeners keep at it I am ..for better or worse...
Benita from Berwick
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