Sonoma Outdoors Faux Driftwood And Glass Wind ChimeWith Spring in the air (not to mention allergy season along with it) being outdoors is much nicer and great way to expend some energy after being stuck indoors during winter. I have been wanting to have my own vegetable garden for some time and now am finally able to get one started. After a bit of digging around our yard to find the best spot for planting the veggie garden project began.
As you can see there is plenty of room for vegetables to be planted.
Finding seedlings ended up being harder than I thought. I call where we live corn country as there is always fields upon fields of corn as far as the eye can see. With that being seed you would think the easiest seedlings to find would be corn. But no that would be too simple. After driving around to several nurseries and stopping at anywhere that looked like it might possibly have seedlings this is what we have planted to date.
Cauliflower
Beans
(this one is very special as my son grew it from a seed at school and bought the seedling home to plant)
Peppers
(capsicums in Australia)
think we planted the red ones
Cucumbers
(my kids love cumber and I hope to have enough to make pickles)
Spring Onions
(chives/shallots)
Sweet Corn
(yes I finally got some corn but it was the seeds instead of seedlings)
Celery
(this was another one that was impossible to find so I'm trying something I read online - cut off the bottom of the stalk of a fresh bunch and just plant it for new shoots to grow from - will see how this one progresses)
Crimson Watermelon
(who can say no to watermelon in the warm weather)
Tomatoes
(no vegetable garden would be complete without these)
There is still room to add more and I still have a list of seedlings that I want to add if I can find seedlings seeds or another way of planting them.
I am still on the look out for:
lettuce, carrots, potato, spinach, sweet potato,and whatever else I can think of planting
I have herbs - parsley, sage, rosemary, basil, oregano
as well as strawberries and lavender growing separately near the pond
Herbs
Strawberries
Lavender
I have found quite a few birds have decided that both the pond area and the vegetable garden are a great place to visit and while I enjoy their company I do not want them wreaking havoc on my poor seeds and seedlings so I looked in to how to make a bird scarer and will do another post on that separately. It seems to be working so far and I will post some photos of how they look.
