I'm home. The weather gods were kind, the illness and sleep gods were not. Time and some serious catch up naps are necessary before I comment any further on the camp week. I need to gain a little perspective!
What I did love was coming home this afternoon, letting the chooks out, sitting on the back step and having Lucky run straight up and jump onto my knee. Bless her little chicken feet.
So, here's a post I started putting together a little while ago. Hopefully I will get time to replant some parts of the garden this weekend.
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It's nearly a year since my lovely dad came to stay for the weekend and helped to build our veggie garden. When I say helped, he was definitely the brains and half the brawn of the operation! So here's the good things to have come out of the garden over the past 12 months. The bad and the ugly will follow later!
Runaway successes
Corn - Would happily plant the whole backyard full of corn. The first cobs were a meal in themselves and the sweetest, juiciest, most delicious I have ever eaten. Subsequent cobs were smaller but still good. Even picked a couple of baby corn to try them out! They were planted where the Snow Peas had been and companion planted with the beans. This is apparently the thing to do as the peas and beans put nitrogen (I think) into the soil that the corn needs. However, I've not got anything to compare them to to be sure this is why they were so good!
Beans - Really good producers and delicious. The only downside of planting them and using the corn for them to grow up is the corn finished before the beans and some of them blew over, taking the still producing beans with them!
Carrot - easy to grow for most of the year, even if they take a while. Consistently tasted good and the strangely shaped ones provided some entertainment!
Lettuce - easy to grow but need to be more organised to play successive crops as we ate them so quickly!
Tomato - Have never had such a heavy crop that actually ripened!
Basil - Going strong. Will have plenty to freeze for winter.
Broccoli - grew well and tasted good. Was a magnet for caterpillars though. At least the chickens got the benefit of those!
Mild Successes
Cucumber - got about 6-8 cucmbers which were crunchy and delicious then the plant just died.
Oregano - Growing in a herb planter - did much better when it was in the garden bed.
Thyme - As for Oregano.
Parsley - Overwhelmed by giant tomato plants but still got enough to be useful.
Not a bad effort really!
1 comment:
The corn looks amazing. We've had the same success with tomatoes and our cucumbers were big, but like you, not many grew - last year we were overrun with them!
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