OK well, I had grand plans a few weeks back to blog a huge post about the vegie garden.. I went out and took photos but then got stumped on how to actually display them all in a way that made sense in one huge post…. I have since given up!
So I’ve decided to just blog the vegie garden photos in bits and pieces… as I get time, or it may never get done, and I really need some kind of record as much for myself as anyone else.
So here is our vegie garden…
This was taken about two weeks ago and since we have a little bit of rain and lots of warm weather it is even bigger, greener and more over grown now!
Ah poop this image came out smaller than I had hoped but I don’t have time to re do it now… Anyway above is the first round of pics…from left to right:
Silver Beet – didn’t do great, we had three come up and they all got badly eaten. Not sure by what.. slugs or maybe cabbage moth caterpillars?? Though I never saw either of them…
Bok Choi – it was too hot for these I expect and they went to seed almost as soon as they came up, but we still got some good leaves off them anyway. I hope they will self seed and/or we can save some of their seeds and try again when it cools off a bit.
Cos Lettuce… third go with lettuce this summer, the first two were eaten to the ground by something.. we’ve battled this with lots of seedlings and think it was ear wigs though still not %100 sure. This time around they grew great! They have now started to go to seed but we are still harvesting and again hope they will self seed for another round.
Rhubarb – this has done so well, ever since it got rescued it from my MIL’s garden before she moved. It literally got shoved it in a hole, with no water and no love, and even so it has thrived. It has thrived even more with some water and attention! We plan to divide it up and give some back to my MIL and my Mum and have more plants to put back in. The girls LOVE stewed rhubarb and we often make rhubarb and apple pie or rhubarb muffins!
DebF says
well, your vegie garden looks about 300 times better than ours LOL – maybe we’ll have water next summer ;)
and rhubarb – we’ve had no luck with it since we moved here, and I have the yummiest rhubarb cake recipe – I must email that to you!
Lis says
I LOVE apple and rhubarb pie…yummo!! Your vegie garden makes my few little tubs look sad and sorry!
pokettiger says
You Rock! Your garden looks fabulous! And to think you have 3 year old twins and another one on the way. I am hoping that we will one day have a great garden again. It is still winter here in California with signs of spring everywhere but our veggie garden plot looks pitiful and is chock full of weeds. Just maybe we will find time to devote to it as we really get into spring and summer. I have visions of our little girls helping us in the garden – well in a couple of years perhaps as they are only 9 1/2 mo old. Those who know better than us newbie parents may laugh at such a rose-colored prespective. But I think one day it will happen. At least I hope so.
Nic and Beren says
Wow ! thats an amazing vege garden Kate.
fazzbech says
Wow, that is a huge vegie patch! I envy you and all that yummy home-grown stuff!
Rae says
WOW! Looks so lush and vast compared to my potted vegies all in a line out the front of my house. Ha Ha :)
Is rhubarb hard to grow? I’d love to grow it.