You Grow Girl™

I have finally got the time to start planting out my vegie garden. I took some before photos of the ready made vegie patch I have in my yard:

This very blurry photo shows the back corner of the garden with the worm farm in place.

The vegie plot is a narrow strip between the paving and the fence.

The dog likes to dig around the area where the worm farm is so that makes it hard to plant anything there.

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This shows the front section of the garden with nice curving concrete edging.

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There is a very nice begonia growing through the fence.

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This is looking down on the garden.

Now,hopefully I will be able to show some lovely after photos soon.

I fertilised the garden a few weeks ago so it was all ready for planting. At least the soil was very easy to dig because it had been used as a garden before. I was going to study up big time and make sure I had everything planted in the right place, with the perfect companion plants but it was such a lovely day today and I really wanted to get some of the punnets of seedlings in before it was too late so I just told them to all make friends.

I put alternate blocks of sweet corn and cosmos along the back. That wasn't any kind of clever companion planting thing, I just thought they would look pretty together. Because this is the only garden patch in my backyard I want it to be decorative as well as functional.

In keeping with the decorative theme, I put in a border of pansiesand violasat the front. Then, at the back near the worm farm I put in the viney things like pumpkinand zucchini(do they call them zucchinis anywhere but Australia? I think they are courgettes in the UK).

In the middle area I planted cauliflower, capsicum and rocket. I don't know if it is the right time of year for cauliflower but they had the the seedlings at the shop so I got them. I have some tomatoes growing in a pot but want to get some cherry tomatos for salads.

I have been selective about the vegetables I have planted this year because I just planted things willy-nilly last year and half them were things we don't eat. That is kinda pointless.

So now the vegies are in. I also have peaches. I hadn't paid much attention to my miniature peach tree after the beautiful blossoms finished. Then I checked it today and it has about six peaches the size of big marbles. Yippee. I bet they will taste superb.

Things aren't doing so well in the rest of the garden. I had tulips and other bulbs growing everywhere then, all of a sudden, they seemed to stagnate. I don't know if it is because the weather suddenly got warmer or if there wasn't enough strength in the bulbs. Our autumn was quite mild and it took forever for the bulbs to die down after flowering. The grape hyacinths were the only bulbs that did well.