new veggie patch

ok I know I am not on holidays but the idea came up while we were on holiday.

I enviously looked at frannie and jims vegetable producing efforts on a suburban block and an allotment and l live on 10 acres

I can do that i thought yet again- i had thought it last time when i was there 2 years ago and nothing happened

Ian expressed doubt about it happening this time but we booked the boys for xmas to create me a veggie patch.

I got impatient and ian wasnt here to stop me - so i started to plan

Veggie growing books were bought and read

A circular patch seemed the go and most books said that you need about 12x4m square to feed a family of four for a year. I looked at the site that ian and i had picked and measured a circle of 5m radius. you can do the maths but it should more than easily feed ian and me and possibly the large number of rabbits floating around the garden at present

I havent allowed for the kangeroos.

I measured out with pink paint and dug the first hole then the second - after about 30 minutes i decided this was a waste of time . the dirt was too compacted and very little was happening.

what to do - i googled our local hire place to see if they had any cultivators- they did but they seemed a little heavy for me and for those that know me - we all know that once i have decided i want to do something i want to do it now not later.

So i googled bunnings and cultivator - they had a baby electric cultivator - it looked just the thing - our soil at present is fairly moist after a wet september and we are blessed with lovely potato growing soil

So I headed off to bunnings and the local nursery and veg was bought and a baby electric cultivator



I cultivated most of saturday afternoon and did 2 quarters of the patch and planter potatoes, tomatoes, cabbages

i headed out sunday morning and found myself some froggie gumboots and no frannie you cant have them - they are cute


and then today i went back for more cultivating and now have planted pumpkins strawberries lettuces broccholi and i still have a final quarter left for my peas beans and sweetcorn and carrots which i have ordered from diggers

So fingers crossed - hopefully we will get the tank water connected soon as the weather is predicted to be dry for the next week

I will let you know if anything gets produced!!

the pictures and i are argueing at present will do them when i am at the flat where the internet is about 10 times as fast!!