Garden Plan

So for those of you not following we are building a large vegetable patch down the back so we can grow some more of our food.

We aim to grow foods we eat and that are expensive to buy / need to be fresh as well as create an area for bees and insects. Thinking Gingers, capsicum, tomato, chili, cucumber, all the lovely herbs and salad greens and so much more.

We have a big water tank- we need to fix the spout and the pump at the bottom.. but its full.

We are building compost piles in each of the beds as they are built to reduce the soil we need to buy and also use our garden and kitchen scraps in a better way.

We have a worm farm which i will show you in the bottom photos

We will be ripping out the stones and trees in the back slope and planting ground cover flowers or say watermelon down there. not veges as such...

FLOOD SET BACK

as many of you know QLD was under a sea of water for a week

so we had a pause on works for a while to deal with that. Thankfully we did not flood. in 2011 we had water to the roof!!! we moved after that to this house that is much higher!!!!

UPDATE on the beds

as you can see my husband has been working hard to build the beds. they are nearly complete.

I have also taken out many of the stones.. washed and sieved and cleaned them.
This has been a big job... but will be well worth it. We need to get the soil out of the stones. better for drainage and less weeds for sure. it has been a MASSIVE job

This job is the one that I did while my husband builds.

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COMPOST FILLING

to fill these, we have no soil in the property to use. So we are CREATING OUR SOIL by building compost into each bed as they come available. The first bed is already 1/2 fill with compost. This will cut down our costs of bringing in soil a lot. we are using cardboard boxes, grass clippings, food scraps and garden scraps to make the pile. Its doing VERY well. Husband is very please. a few weeks in and it is well composted.

compost needs to be damp and have a good mix of brown (leaves and straw and cardboard (without print) ) and green. grass clippings and vege scraps

AROUND THE PATCH

the rest of the garden is small and in pots at the moment while we wait for these beds to be done. That being said, we still eat food from them every night. The cucumbers are prolific as are the chilis and we use the herbs and greens most nights as well which is fantastic for sure.

HERE ARE A FEW PHOTOS

These are the gingers i planted from the kitchen scraps :-)
I love ginger and it will feature heavily in the garden beds!!

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My tomatos that were just a seed in a compost bag... lol... i didn't plant them at all... but they ae growing... can't wait to see what they actually are...

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Ok bit random... naughty critter eating my onions...

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The corriander has bolted... sigh... always does in the heat..

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something nibbling the line tree... but its getting more healthy now ive tried to take care of it!

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My lovely curry leaf tree that i simply can't kill .. lol... beleive me this thing has died in the pot at least twice.

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some herbs

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WORM FARM - don't look if you don;t like little wormlings

Their favourite food appears to be cardboard and watermelon

which they seem to live off exclusively.. they ignore everything else... selective little buggers. lol

CONCLUSIONS

thanks for reading folks. I'm looking forward to be planting the gardens in spring. we are coming up to winter here so we have a little while. I would like to be able to put some nitrogen fixing peas or something in for winter, so we will see how we go getting the beds ready to go.

its been an adventure.