This was the hitherto unkempt and disgusting corner of our garden once marked out to be ‘The Cubby House Area’ for when we were going to get the said construction. However, money (cubbies! are $$$!!) and boredom on Adam’s part one weekend meant that instead we got this. Now, considering my recent environmental freakout I actually am completely fine with the way things have turned out. Because, as you can see, the plants are all still alive.
If the case were different, you can be sure I’d be groaning most indignantly about the stupid plants. But I’m not, so hooray! Let me show you my babies:
The row of four taller plants by the fence are different types of tomatoes that are now beginning to flower. (Amazed? I AM.) From left to right in the second row is weed*, capsicum and strawberry. In the third row are my little basils (who aren’t doing quite so well…) And the in the last is my silverbeet (doubled it’s size!) and chili bush.
Oh. Oh yeah – you see OUTSIDE? on the other side of the barrier? Next to the herb pots? In no-plants-land? As an afterthought? Is the CORN. In Keira’s words, “They look sad.”
That’s because daddy forgot to put them in the plot so thought, hey let’s engage in a little Spartan philosophy and plant them wherever and if they survive then good on them. Survival for the fittest, here.
It has been Keira’s job every day to go out and ‘talk to the plants’ and generally watch over them. It has been Riley’s job to march through the garden with his shoes on and trample them into the dirt. He thinks this is much more fun.
So – what do you think?
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*Edit: Weed as in the singular, like ‘a weed’. Not weed known collectively and popularly as in the drug kind. No no no no. Gosh, that word really becomes silly when you type it over and over again. Weed! Whee!!! Okay, will stop now.
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Very smart and well decorated.
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Yay another vegie gardener joining the fold!
Once you taste homegrown tomatoes you’ll never touch the supermarket ones again, not even with a barge pole
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I love that they are “your babies” only cos they are actually growing
Maybe it’s all of Keira’s loving attention… We have a little patch with rosemary, parsley, oregano, basil, tomatoes and strawberries – it’s amazing how well stuff grows up here where it’s always raining!
Your garden is looking good. Girl-child insisted on getting a garden for her 4th birthday. We are space limited so it is on the balcony outside her room. It now has tomatoes, snow peas, broccoli, parsley, strawberries and a rose. It is surviving – barely.We would love for a real vegie garden!
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Yes it must be fashionable at the moment. I found this article by one of our writers and it’s helpful to anyone attempting the same.
http://www.ourpatch.com.au/australia/users/spida/blogs/800-vegetable-growing-growing
Del – that sounds really good though!
M – I know, damn you and your mid north coast rainy goodness
Jayne – I thought you’d be proud!
JLP – Naturally, sir
Vegie garden looks great! We only put ours in this week so ours just looks like a a patch of dirt at the moment!
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Very nice! Don’t worry about the basil. It’s a bit of a slow starter, but it will come around.
There is NOTHING like the joy of eating your own produce!!!
Silverbeet is always a winner – it just gives and gives. Our basil is wild up here nowadays, it has self-seeded for the third season in a row – as is our coriander!
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