2nd stage – well this has inspired a summer makeover of the front garden.  Since we started with our whiteboard wish list I’ve cleared out the weeds, discovered self sown tomatoes, a few random potatoes.  The tomatoes have been staked, the soil turned over, a new crop of lettuce has gone in.  I’m using seedling lettuce as it will deliver a quicker crop for us.

I’ve taken our whiteboard wish list and given it some structure;

Planting now (late Summer) –

BED 1 – Cucumbers, Lettuce & Strawberries

BED 2 – tomatoes have been staked

BED 3 –  Capsicum

BED 4 – (on fence line with all the north light) Passionfruit

Come late Autumn through till Winter we’ll compost the soil, plant out red onions for Ben, let the Roquet self seed everywhere and plant some Broad Bean seeds, but not anywhere near the onions.

This started out as a random conversation around the dinner table, but then it got me thinking.  I’m always on about how a small veggie garden More

We’re back at work for 2015.  Starting off with a roof garden More