Sunday 3 November 2013

The Garden Share Collective { Our Vegetable garden at 7 weeks }


A monthly (and my first), post for the Garden Share Collective. Started by the lovely Liz from The Strayed Table to encourage more people to grow their own organic food. A blogging community, who share a garden update about their own vegetable patches, big or small. What is growing, what has been harvested and what has made it to the do-list.

Well, my garden at seven weeks young, is slowly blossoming. We created it, to both grow our own vegetables, but to also instil the joy of looking after, and watching plants grow with our two young daughters. It is our first vegetable garden. We are growing vegetables, sunflowers and marigolds from a mixture of seedlings and plants.



 




Our climate is a little on the hot side in this part of the country. Most days are in the high 30's. And, at the moment, it keeps getting gradually hotter and hotter by the week. Despite this, with twice daily watering, it still continues to thrive.

What do we have growing in our garden at the moment? Yellow and red tomatoes, cucumbers, purple runner beans, zucchini, chilli's, parsley, lettuce, coriander, and corn. We also have a potted Valencia Orange tree, lemon tree, and a New Norcia Olive tree which were relocated with the rest of our belongings from Perth. We had a limited amount of seedlings available to choose from when we first planted the vegetable garden, and as my brother was helping us with the construction of the vegetable garden, he was the one who quickly chose seeds and seedlings to plant. A lot of things that were on my shopping wish list to plant and grow, were not in stock unfortunately. The joys of living in a remote part of the country. You can read my post about the making of our vegetable garden here. As time goes on, I hope to be more organised in what we plant to eat at our table. I can already see, that we're going to have more purple runner beans than our small family could ever need. We haven't quite found a balance of planting that works for us yet. But this was a vegetable garden, planted in haste, before the temperatures became too warm. 

What do I have on my to do for next month. Some more considered planting, basil, carrots, and spring onions. All of which I use often in the kitchen. And to look into a small compost bin system for our food scraps. And, of course, a little bit of weeding. They grow as quickly as our vegetables.

'Til next month!


12 comments:

  1. Welcome to the group. Thanks for sharing your little garden with us.

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  2. Hey for a garden of only 7 short weeks, it's looking really great!! Keep up the great work!!

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    1. Thanks Lisa. It's a bit of a novelty for the girls and I at the moment. So it must be all the attention the garden is getting!!!

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  3. Your garden looks awesome! Everything looks so healthy and well loved. Thanks for sharing... :)

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  4. I am super impressed, for seven weeks growth, not many people can show off what you have in your garden, tomatoes and all! Sounds like you have some big plans with your veggie patch and it is really going to transform of the coming months I guess depending on the heat. Also with the purple runner beans I bag them up into portion size for a meal and freeze them. Then when I need give them a quick cook - easy beans for dinner.

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    1. Thanks Lizzie, we will almost certainly be doing that with the purple runner beans!
      Beginners luck I think. Though my brother went in to a lot of effort to improve our soil before planting. I think that has really helped things along also!

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  5. Seven weeks!! That is awesome. You could also can the beans to save on freezer space - not that I have canned those sorts of beans...

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    1. Thanks! I'd never thought of canning the beans!

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  6. Your garden is looking great and very neat in beautiful rows :)

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