Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Vegetable Garden!


I was very busy today..besides the hour cleaning, and the half hour preparing dinner, and the hour cleaning the chip cooker, and the hour cleaning the shed out..I also spent 2 hours pulling the pool down to accommodate our soon to be vegetable garden!
The kids are now old enuff to go to the local pools, our pool was a pain to keep clean, and not that the chlorine was dear..but the pool is sitting there for 9 months doing nothing.
So I want a vege garden.
I still have the tarp and the bricks to pull up..and level out the sand that was under the pool....I am going to use raised garden beds so this should all pan out well. I also have some foam boxes in the shed, so I will plant veges in them too. Also behind the shed but still kinda in the open is an area I want to put some tyres, I will grow a cucumber or some sort of vine type plant, so that it doesnt spread. I want to try to utilise all the space I can effectively. I have a compost bin going and I have bought my self a little greenhouse too....was contemplating where to put that without it being a nuisance. And have decided with a few bricks in the bottom so it doesnt blow away, that it will go on the pavers near the back door, in the full morning sun.
I have a trellis I bought yesterday too..for beans.
As you can see by the gate it isnt very sturdy, esp to keep out a dirt digging dog! So that will have to be made a little sturdier to keep her out. I do have to address the fact that we have neighbours with roaming cats...lots of them. So have to figure out a way to keep the cats out of my vege garden too.
The area I have to work with is 5.6 metres at the back section along the fence, and along the right hand side it is 3.6 metres, the left side is 4.8 metres and the front section is basically 4 metres ( but a working area of 3 metres as the gate is there) so it isnt by any means a square..
We bought for the kids a couple of years ago a set of bunk beds(yes they hate them) But I kept the cardboard packaging and that will be perfect to use under the raised beds. I will buy some timber (rough stuff) and angle brackets and just lay the timber in place and screw together. That shouldnt take too much elbow grease. I am thinking maybe 3 beds...but not sure yet.
I still have to work out the layout, the cat deterring, and also the type of vegetables we want to grow. I have purchased some seeds off ebay lately, Thumberlina carrots (shaped like a beetroot), some zebra tomatos, snow white cherry tomatos, corn (that is only grown for its popping value, the kids will love that), some yellow roma tomatos, and sputnik tomatos. I have some seeds for shallots too I have had for a while. I want to grow some lettuce, and onions too....but as far as anything else havent really thought it thru too much! I will get there..slow and steady.. I am thinking if I have the beds ready by about end of July beginning of August then I should be right..but time will tell if this happens as planned.
I will be taking progress shots right thru this too, as more of a record for myself than anything.
So ...where to next.. bricks/tarp/sand/and levelling....

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