Not sure if I mentiond it, but the combined vege patch with our neighbours is well under way. At first I had - with the kids - planted a pile of seeds and thinking I'd try something 'green' with it, planted them in egg cartons... well, the dog didn't like that idea and kept standing in it (they were on top of my planter box) and you can imagine what the cat was doing with it... so those ones never panned out. I ended up having to buy seedlings for the first vege install (gosh, did I work in IT)... and they are well under way. My next attempt at planting seeds is working (no egg carton) however, on the day i could not find my permanent marker pen, so I used a felt pen thinking I would find the permanent sooner rather than later... well, I forgot didn't I, and watered them that night... guess what - no labels. Oh well, at least they are popping up... I will be able to recognise most of them, but the ones I have never planted before, like Stevia and Soapwart, well... here's hoping a quick Google Search will help me out there.
The vege patch at present has a load of brassica's, tomatoes, zucchini, onion & leeks. I have been following a friend of mine in the vege growing challenge and she had made a blackboard for her garden to indicate what was in there and when things should be ready. Great idea, but I've run out of blackboard paint. Perhaps a summer project.
We have also covered over the berry cage with bird netting and created a little strawberry patch right next to it. Very proud, but still have to work out a better way of tacking that side down.
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