My darling was kind to say, he was used to seeing gardens that are clean. In other words politely he was telling me he was not too happy that my garden had more grass and weeds in it than growing plants!!! I read somewhere it can be good for the garden to let it grow abit. Well that was my justification.
Anyway, I have been busy finding materials around the property from the previous owners, there is tonnes of stuff. I have been able to make some new planter boxes and prepare for my long awaited strawberry plants. In the end we have changed around some of the garden. I ended up transplanting my veges to a new rested garden patch. My broad beans have to stay where they are because they are growing fantastically!!
So here is a picture of my new garden patch, I intend to split my big garden into 2 so I can have 3 plots each at different stages, so that I can have crops all year round. And have my seedlings going on in the greenhouse.
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| The boxes I have made. On the right, the 2 tyres have our potato and Kumera in. Moving back on the right where chub stands is the new plot of veges. In front of him is my herb garden - birds love this so am making a screen cover. Behind him you can see our broad beans in the old garden section and the compost heap directly behind. Moving over to the left - from the front- Onions in the first box, in the next box will be our strawberries. There is a box behind which will have our tomato's in and behind that the corn. Then behind that on weedmat is our pumpkin and watermelon allowed to grow down the slope. |
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| We have been told that marigold flowers help to keep rabbits and pests away, so I have started to make flower beds around the outside of our garden and plant as many as we can. They really look pretty. Thank you to Jazz my niece who put the flowers in. I had lost my wind after making and filling the bed. A womans touch!! |
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here are the transplanted veges in their new home. it looks really good. And the silver beet are now standing up again.
Arama brought home some wonderful citrus trees for our garden so they will be planted today along with the peacherine trees I bought him for our 15th Wedding Anniversary on the 18th!
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Your garden's are just so beautiful. they do inspire me to try harder.
ReplyDeleteOur garden beds are clearly defined. The perfectly weeded garden beds with flowers perfectly pruned & veggies growing strongly are Jessica's. the one with stray weeds and tomatoes growing a little wildly would be Maddie's and the bed with nothing but weeds growing taller than me would be mine. I weeded it the other day so I can just hand it over to the kids to take care of.
Our citrus tress are going wonderfully though. The apricot tree is covered in fruit so we have ladders and baskets under it full time now. The kids love it.
ps Happy wedding anniversary. 15 woohoo!