Rebekahs Vegie garden

30 Mar '05 7:15 pm

Yummy looking vege's Rebekah Cool

My veg garden is about 16x20 meters and if I were more conscientious it would feed us amply all year round Embarassed

unfortunately I'm not Razz

mmm...South Island parsnips...always sweeter, has to do with the chilling maybe? Confused

29 May '05 8:30 pm

Its all rather naked at the moment.

Summer came to an end, and I brought more chooks. Combined together my garden is nothing short of naked.

I have the glasshouse full of broccoli and cauliflower. Had planted a row of silverbeet seeds while we had a period of 4 odd days of warmth about 1 1/2 weeks ago and they're yet to sprout up, if they ever will. Time will tell.

Outside, well thats grim. My hens got stuck into my brussels sprouts and there was nothing left of them, so I ripped out the plants this afternoon and threw them to the hens Evil or Very Mad

Broccoli outside are just little sticks Evil or Very Mad

Silverbeet looks like a tornado went through them Evil or Very Mad

Potatoes are sprouting. Will need to get a frost cloth over them soon.
Carrots are 'storing' in the ground at the moment.

I'm just about ready to plot out were my new garden will go, buy in the materials and build it up about 30cm off the ground.

29 May '05 8:32 pm

This year I will be growing in spring/summer:
Amaranthus tricolour
Salaify
Green macerata (cauliflower)
Dwarf bean - french commander
Strawberry spinach
Baby beets
Dill
Imperial star globe artichoke
Basil siam queen
Florence fennel tuscany
Carrot - purple dragon (purple)
Carrot - lubiana (yellow)
Carrot nutri red (red)
Onion - allium cepa
Pumpkin - atlantic giant
Pumpkin - wee be little
Radish - french breakfast
Radish - chinese half long green
Tomato - cherokee purple
Tomato - black form tula
Tomato - evergreen
Tomato - yellow pear
Tomato - black kirm
Peas - dwarf massey
Radish - white icicle
Turnip - purple top white globe

I haven't grown any of these vegetables before. I'm trying out new and weird vegetables that I haven't grown before.

30 May '05 5:01 pm

Basil Siam Queen is grown in here in Thailand I have them in my garden at the back of the house you said you haven't grow them before and if you would like me to give the advice about this I'm please to advice you.

30 May '05 5:42 pm

Thanks Nut. I will keep that in mind for when it comes time to planting them. The packet I got them in has pretty good 'fool-proof' instructions, but we'll see Wink

6 Jun '05 9:19 am

Rebekah, you must be the cloche-frost-cloth - plastic-glass-house-glass-glass-house winter vegetable-growing queen! I am going to try some veges now in my glass-house - probably only lettuces at this stage. I promise to read your posts if I lose confidence!

11 Jun '05 7:06 pm

Gosh, what an ego builder that post was Laughing

18 Jun '05 7:15 am

Don't forget the garlic Rebekah! Very Happy

It is almost time...only 3 more sleeps till the shortest day! Shocked

18 Jun '05 10:35 am

What, only 3 more left? You're kidding??

That means my hens will go back on the lay, and I'll have faaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrr too many free range eggs! Grr need to find more customers. Confused

I'm not much of a garlic user myself, although it does have its positive uses in the garden.

I'm getting a rotary hoe into my new vegetable garden this coming week. Time to get the hard soil (it isn't a garden yet, but will be once the soil is all dug up) turned for the frosts to work its magic.

I've placed some railway sleepers around the edge, and have changed the shapre of the whole patch into an almost horse shoe shape.
It looks silly with the edge some brick, mostly sleepers, and some concrete slabs. But it all does its job so who cares how odd it looks, right?! Rolling Eyes

I'll post a picture of it at this stage soon, and I'll post another when its all finished and ready for planting.

I'll need to put up a fence (probably shade cloth) around the garden to keep the hens out, or there would be no point in having a garden if the plants never survive.

22 Jun '05 6:16 pm

Well, here is the picture of my newest vege garden.

Its now part of the garden I made last winter (there is 1 potato hill at the very back which is in the last winters garden, which comes forward to around the 2 white sticks in the ground).

As you can see its a good size.

My first plot is to the right of this picture. Will take a picture of that tomorrow. Nothing is planted in it due to chickens.

Here are my winter crop in the glasshouse:

Broccoli (near) and cauliflowers (back)