Living Like a Small Green Hairy Fruit

The Vegge Patch

Beginning of  December 2007

Well all Mark's hard work with the building of the propagator and seed trays has paid off.  We've had a bumper crop of radishes, gourmet lettuces, some broccolli, new potatoes and cabbage and the cauliflowers are doing nicely.  As are the potatoes in buckets.

We've started another bed with tomatoes, brussels sprouts, carrots, onions, lettuces, cucumber, watermelon, peppers and chillies and also have strawberries.  Once the trees blossomed we realised we also have 3 plum trees, as opposed to the one we'd been told about by the neighbours, and 2 cherry trees, which are all doing very nicely.  There's also sweetcorn, watermelon, more onions and lettuces coming on in the propagator.

The vegge patches were heavily mulched with local pig manure and get watered everyday and feed every week.

The kids did well with their potatoe in a bucket competition for school.  Kaela grew 9 potatoes and Andrew 13 and after judging on 3 December they were allowed to bring them home and they made lovely buttery new pots with freshly chopped parsley (from the newly planted herb garden).  And very sweet and tasty they were too!

The cabbages have grown enormous - just over 2 foot in diameter.  We've been taking off some of the outer leaves to use for dinners and Mark has blanched and frozen some already.

Here are some pics of our produce so far:

We're pretty impressed with our monster veg! And it all tastes so fresh and sweet.  Can't wait for the watermelons and cucumbers!

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4:42 PM, Monday 10 December 2007 .. Posted by karonious

Good grief - those radishes look bigger than the bread rolls you made once!! Bet they taste great though.