I love gardening (let me clarify, I like edible gardens, I'm not good with the flowers and pretty things). Lumpy LOVES helping me in the garden. She helps plant seeds, transplant seedlings, water, and pick our food! I think it is great that she is so involved. She watches the changes and loves watching butterflies and bees do their thing! She was also reallly helpful and putting the hens in with the sweet corn .... we had no corn to harvest!
It is also a great way to save money on fruit and vegetables on your weekly shop - we however don't have a huge amount growing, and only a snippet of each thing. Baby steps! one day we will have enough beds to have multiple plants of the same thing!
Here is a selection of our current garden.
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| Some of our self seeded tomatoes fruiting |
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| the mess of dwarf beans and butternut pumpkin |
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| Basil.... This is incredibly exciting to me.. I have not been successful in growing basil to date! (I envied a friends basil haul last year!) |
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| cucumber |
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| Paw Paw |
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| Lettuce - one of the only ones that has grown! (I have planted more seeds!) |
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| Chilli (green and not overely hot) |
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| snow peas - i have 2 lots of snow peas growing - Lumpy planted this lot... slightly crowded :) ) |
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| Zucchini |
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| Strawberry |
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| Eggplant! I HATE eggplant. Lumpy had free choice of a plant... she picked Egg plant!!! anyway it's been incredibly successful and we have had over 10 eggplant with more on the plant and more flowers! |
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| Passionfruit vine |
We also have shallots (grown from a bunch i got about18 months ago!!), mango, avocado, mandarin, blood orange and bay tree growing!
Growing your own isn't expensive - most of ours are grown from seed (or self seeded or the chooks seeded them ) and our seeds purchased from ebay very cheap. The first year is the most expensive if you have to go and buy everything.
Even try growing a few snow peas /climbing beans or dwarf beans in a pot - they grow quickly and are pretty kid tolerant :)
6 days on - http://mylumpydays.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/how-my-garden-has-grown-in-6-days.html
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