Our winter vegetable garden this year consisted of some peas, silverbeet and beetroot, which were planted in the small garden beside the house and under the eaves. The beetroots are delicious, and few of the peas make it inside due to the kids grazing on them before they should be picked.
After the dismal result from the raised garden bed last summer, Andrew dug out the soil, dismantled it and tried to break up some of the clay ground that the garden had been placed on top of. We think that lack of drainage was the problem, particularly with the large amount of rain that fell last January and February, and the garden was water-logged.
We moved 1.5 cubic metres of soil (so called veggie mix) on Saturday, from our driveway where it had been dumped, to our garden. Nathan was very excited by the job and started before anyone else was ready, moving soil with his toy front-end loader. Then he moved on to using a shovel.
Yesterday we bought a few seedling and some packets of seeds. We will finish planting today, and just hope that everything will survive nearly 2 weeks without any supervision while we are on holidays in Tasmania.
Peas growing next to the house.
Three tomato plants where the beetroot were growing.
