A little update on the Vegie patch. As mentioned earlier I was excited to be back in the garden. It was looking somewhat the worse for wear after 6 weeks of neglect.


I started by arranging my seeds, inspired by the Saucy Onion. I had an old worm box with a mish mash of stuff in it, so I made dividers and sorted them into planting months using my Diggers "Sow What When" guide.









The Lebanese cucumbers had been demolished by caterpillars, I suspect, so despite producing ~10 fruit, they had to go.





The beans have gone berserk, with all 3 colours (purple, green and striped from the Diggers 3 bean mix) represented. They are so sweet and crunchy, I manage to eat them all before I get them back to the kitchen. A very healthy snack.

I need to learn to squish these little buggers

My yellow zucchini are being attacked by something, but I have an army of yellow lady beetles (my favourite insect) on the job. Despite a shy beginning, I saw a hint of yellow at the base of some female flowers this morning so fingers crossed.

A hint of zucchini

The sweet corn has ears, albeit baby ones, and the ants seem to love them, but I don't think this is too much of a problem.


I have, so far, harvested 1 yellow cherry tomato. He was small but, still warm off the bush, he was delicious. Not big enough to bother putting in my lunchtime sanga, so I settled for cucumber and radish with my salmon, yum.

A handsome little tomato

So, this weekend I planted all the herbs that were struggling and pot bound, into the soil on the retaining wall. I can just picture their little toes stretching out like mine do after a night of dancing in too tight shoes, Bliss!





I also planted out my seedlings that I started ~8 weeks ago - they are completely stunted and never got much past the 2 leaf stage, but I am optimistic. There are a couple of Italian Fryers (capsicum) and some tomatoes and spring onions. I also got some more lettace seedlings from Bunnings and put them in the soil garden this time - hopefully will work better than last time when I just got lettuce trees??





I ripped out the devoured cucumbers and put in some dwarf snow peas. And in the no-dig garden I put in some coriander and fennel seeds. I will hopefully be able to thin that out and plant some broccoli in a couple of weeks if I manage to start some seedlings.

No-dig Garden

So I've been a busy girl. No I just have to sort out my disaster zone of a house!


Til next time.... L