Hi Id like to share a couple of pics of the progression of my and my wifes garden and the setup of the beds themselves at our house in Bayswater. We have gotten so much out of reading Jettos Patch in the short time since we joined and thought we should introduce ourselves and our garden. We are currently growing red cabbage, cauliflower, red onions, brown onions, chives, broad beans, snow peas, assorted lettuce, rainbow chard, tatsoi, carrots, rocket, oregano and a micro lemon tree in its own separate bed. Ive just planted two artichoke and some Italian silverbeat and a pumpkin from the kitchen scraps we bury has popped up too :) The tatsoi and rocket are currently going to seed. The plan is to let two of each plant type do so and hope to collect seeds to replant next year. Friends got us these veggies as seedlings as a wedding gift and they are all meant to be able to be regrown from seed. So far theres snow peas ready, some of the carrots look promising, tiny cauliflowers and lots of greens we have been able to eat so far. I hope all the veggies mature before the weather gets too warm and they go to seed. A bit late start perhaps since i see other peoples plants are further progressed in the main? The garden is at the front of our house and close to north facing. The beds are double brick which we rendered to match the limestone outer. We used bituminous paint and builders plastic for water proofing then topped it off with UV resistant paint where the inner walls are exposed. We put agricultural pipe surrounded by blue metal stone at the bottoms to direct water to one end if it ever did get that inundated. The water table here is crazy high, perhaps because we are at the bottom of a hill? The beds are tall enough on inside to negate some bending over. Theres narrow paths for access to both sides of the 1200 wide beds and the perimeter beds are 900 wide. We laid bull nose capstones so its not sharp leaning against the walls to reach over. The smooth radius overhang of the bull nosing is apparently working so well by itself in keeping out snails that i havent found it necessary yet to put copper tape like planned under them or try out my secondary idea of using fixative and dichotomous sand under the overhang yet. Next year thou I may still experiment with the sand to see if it denies spitfires entry. I underestimated how much the soil would sink initially so my wife and I got very handy with shovels by the time we had shoveled in what ended up being 12 meters cube of soil. Paving going in currently so ill stop tracking sand inside and a fence to stop four legged frolickers coming soon. Plus some lighting for ease of impromptu picking at dinner time. Ive installed 19mm pipes to supply variable rate drippers for reticulation for when thats required. So glad the setup is almost finished now so theres just many years of happy gardening going forwards. So much to learn and hopefully so much to cook too :) Kind regards, Marc and Brenda
Posted on: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 07:43:41 +0000
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