Episode 3 – Bumper Vegie Patch Spring Bonanza!

Posted on | September 17, 2008 | No Comments

mp3 file approx 36 Minutes & 33 mb:

In this episode:
* Whats good eating in the vegie patch now
* Diggers Seed Club Catalogue – What’s hot in heirloom vegies.
* My personal potato famine.
* Come with me on my trip to Herronswood – beautiful garden by the bay.
* The seeds of content – I boost my seed stash with new varieties.
* What I’m planting in the patch this year.
* My vegie patch renovation.

Diggers Seed Club

http://www.diggers.com.au/

Herronswood:

http://www.diggers.com.au/gardenHerons.shtm

Here’s a picture of the parterre garden with the decorative purple mustard and artichoke foliage.

Here’s a picture of the front garden on the way up to the shop.

Here’s a link to the caged potato method that I was going to use this year

http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s2336819.htm

Instead, I decided to put them along side an edge of the garden bed where I could pull the bricks away and harvest them. I plan to lay the stalks down and then parallel to the edge of the bed and put straw on them. The variety is Dutch Cream. Here they are before being covered with about 6 inches (15cm) of soil.

Here’s the garlic, planted ready to be covered with up to 2 inches (5 cm) of soil.

List of planting in this years vegie patch:

Potato, tomatoes, beans, cucumber, rock melon, basil, parsley, leeks, lettuce, spinach, strawberries, raspberries, celery, chillies, zucchini, pepino & cucumber.

Here are some sketches of the different vegie patches and some proposed plantings.

The main vegie patch with the D Bed and the J Bed attached:

Here is the sketch for the bed near the circle:

Here is the Sketch for the bed near the Apricot tree:

Here is a link to some pictures of the main bed as it stands now, post renovation.

http://www.digitdownunder.com/digitmygarden.html

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