1stop Organic Gardening

OK, my vegetable garden is about 10 weeks old now – started from scratch as we built a new raised bed. Everything is looking fantastic, despite the dry weather.

We are already enjoying radish, lettuce, rocket, silverbeet, spring onions, beetroot, zucchini, snow peas and all the herbs. We’ll be cutting broccoli for our next dinner and our tomatoes are getting bigger every day.

I fertilized seedlings as I planted them in the bed with organic pelleted fertilizer. Since then I have done a side-dressing with Complete D at the end of October. I plant to do another side dressing in the next few days, so about once a month.

I’ve just started a new plot (not in the raised bed – I’ve run out of space), which is very sandy, non-wetting soil. So it will be interesting to see how things grow there. So far I’ve put in Japanese pumpkin, corn and purple king climbing beans. The hardest part is getting the water to penetrate the soil.

I hope that seeing my garden has encouraged you to get out there and have a go. Of course I am in South Australia and we’re about to start summer. So if you live in the Northern Hemisphere you’ll have to wait a while. But now’s the perfect time for you to be planning your spring vegetable garden. Of course in many parts of the world you can grow vegetables of some kind all year round – and then there’s always indoors if you can provide the right conditions.

So good luck in your garden!

Warmly,

Julie

Filed under: Uncategorized on November 26th, 2007