Well i have had a busy couple of weeks! I have built a raised veggie garden bed at the side of my house :) i have been looking for my camera cable so i can put up pics but havnt been able to find it yet :(.
It is made with untreated hardwood (treated wood contains arsenic and i try to keep my garden as organic as i can). I lined it with weed matting and filled it with a mixture of organic mushroom compost, organic vegetable compost, organic mixed animal manure and organic sugar cane compost. I have planted sweetcorn, borlotti beans, brussel sprouts, swede, baby spinach, cabbage and carrot (the raised veggie bed is 4.5m long and 69cm wide-the area at the side of the house is very long and skinny)
The november harvest was pretty good :)
12 potatoes
4 blueberries
4 strawberries
2 rhubarb stalks
4 sprigs rosemary and...
..ready for it...
50 snowpeas!!! that came out of one pot!!!!
considering i have a tiny backyard and up until this point it has all been grown in containers i think thats pretty good :)
I am very interested in heirloom vegetable seeds as you cant generally buy them in the stores, have a much longer history, come in awesome colours and grow true from seed (which hybrids dont). I am finding the heirloom tomatoes slightly more difficult to grow then some of the hybrids as i think they require more feeding but i am learning along the way. By far the easiest tomato heirloom to grow is the 'wapsipinicon peach tomato' which is an orange cherry tomato. But i have heirloom snowpeas and heirloom capsicums as well and they are no more difficult to grow then the commercial seedlings.
I have also just bought heirloom beetroot seeds from http://www.thelostseed.com.au/ but their wont be planted until the middle of january.
I will have to try to update this blog much more regularly :)
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