Dad, Hetty, Me, Els all mucking-in! (The masks are for handling the potting mix)
Inspired by Minimonos‘ vege garden planter boxes, and motivated by my super-keen cousinettes Els and Hetty, I (we) built a vege-garden yeasterday! I’ve been thinking about it after seeing Melissa and Grace’s awesome raised-bed vege-garden (and enjoying the produce!), and had a corner of my new place that seemed to get a lot of sun, but didn’t have a real plan / timeline to actually do it. Until on Saturday when I saw my cousin and her kids and they said they had just that day built up a small raised-bed garden and planted some things, and they were keen to help me build one… so in good spontaneous fashion, and wanting to make the most of the girls’ enthusiasm, our Sunday project plans were set!
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I picked them up the next day, we went and got some timber, some straw, compost and vege-soil-mix, and a stack-load of vege-seedlings and then with the help of my Mom and Dad who were down visiting from Auckland for the weekend, we threw together a 80cm x 180cm raised-bed vege-garden. It was pretty easy, being held together just with some wood stakes in the ground and some screws, and then some layers of the straw, compost and vege-mix.
Well done team!! What a family!
The end result… well it will take a few weeks for things to bed-in, but I think I’m gonna have you all around for a VGQ and salad over the next month or three!!
Oh, and thanks to my eager cousinettes’ “guidance”… I not only have the standard silverbeet, rhubarb, peas, broccoli, etc, but I also have a passionfruit vine, a Jalapeno pepper plant, an eggplant, and (Hetty said she likes them) even Brussel Sprouts!!
Watch this space…. it’s on the grow!!
Thanks Els, Hetty, Mom, Dad, and the Minimonos gardening team!!
PS: the next part of this project is to use the bricks from a chimney we’ve just pulled out to make a seating area up behind the vege patch, and some brick steps leading up to it… I’ll keep you posted… or come around next weekend to give me a hand!!
The minimonos-inspired vege garden at my new place
I'm sooo looking forward to my first harvest... Salad anyone?