1stop Organic Gardening

Today was a perfect day to spend in my organic garden. There was a bright blue sky, with occasional whispy, white clouds passing on a just a breath of air.

I pottered around my garden for most of the afternoon. Tidying this, pulling up that… throwing bits to the chooks. My organic veggie garden’s become a little messy, not that I’m complaining. It usually looks like that in my garden this time of year. I still have some very straggly tomatoes holding up, pumpkin vines still bearing new fruit and plants earmarked for seed production. But isn’t that how an organic food garden is supposed to look in Autumn (fall) in temperate zones? I say yes!

So the tidying made some space for new plantings. I’ve sown (seeds) cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, as well as further successions of carrots, lettuce ( 2 varieties) and radish. I’ll put more of most of these in again in about 4 weeks, to make sure we have a continuous supply.

I put sugar snap peas, lettuce and leeks in about three weeks ago and they are all looking good. Of course you want to make sure that you don’t plant your leeks (or any members of the onion family) and peas (any legumes) close to each other as they make bad companions. If you want to know more about Companion Planting click here.

My capsicums and zucchini are still going strong – as are the basil plants and other herbs. In fact they’ve never looked so good since we had a nice drop of rain a few days ago.

So it was a lovely day for me, and in a few months we’ll be enjoying the benefits of organic gardening on our dinner plates from the few hours I “worked” in the gorgeous autumn sun.

Happy Organic Gardening, Healthy Living…

Warmly,

Julie

Filed under: companion planting, vegetables on April 5th, 2008