My veggie garden :: 18/06/2017

Although I am not much of a gardener, if I do grow something, I like to be able to eat it. So over the years I have gained a little bit of experience growing veggies here and there. The main problems I have here are birds (mainly the mouse bird), summer heat and lack of water. So I built these beds under shade cloth - nullifying the first two problems and a friend gave me a 5000l water tank a few years back, and that sorted out the last problem. BTW we had no rain this summer and 5000l was just ok - went down to under 1000l at the end. I hand water every morning and use around 35l

My garden basically consists of 7 x 1m2 beds and I try to stick with one vegetable type per bed. At the moment I have Chinese Cabbage, Kale, Beetroot, Spinach/ Swiss chard and Kol rabi. And the small tree is Moringa. I am really bad at labeling things though - to what I am calling Kale could easily turn to cabbage when I see a head forming. It's happened before.

We have had a bit of rain so have not had to do much - maybe 2hrs of pulling up weeds a month. We get most of our greens from the garden and in summer get enough cherry tomatoes and lettuce to eat a salad a day. Have had no luck with cucumbers.

I find it pretty rewarding and enjoy what time I do spend there and yes, most things do taste a lot nice, especially tomatoes. Lettuce pretty much tastes the same, surprise surprise!