A few weeks ago I was feeling pretty good about my brassicas and their infiltration (or lack thereof) by the cabbage moth (also known as the cabbage butterfly or pieris rapae) . I’d seen a few flitting around the garden, but hadn’t spotted any landing on my plants, and I thought that my companion planting with … Continue reading
Tag Archives: companion planting
Herb Garden in a Pot
I have every intention of actually growing my herbs in my vegetable garden, interspersed with the vegetables (a la my companion planting plan). Except for the mint. That shall remain trapped in a pot for all eternity. But until I buy these raised garden beds (hold the phone, I think I’m ordering some this week!) … Continue reading
See How My Garden Grows: January 2014
For this post I’m linking up with the Garden Share Collective. The Garden Share Collective is a group of bloggers who share their gardening journey, and whose blogs I’ve had great fun reading! I shall be posting some links to the blogs I’ve discovered so far tomorrow for you all to enjoy. In the meantime, here’s … Continue reading
Repotting Strawberry Plants
Way back in September I bought six strawberry plants. At the time they came in one punnet, so tiny were they. Given that I knew that I would be out of action from the garden for quite some time, I repotted those tiny strawberry plants into another pot – two to each one. I kept … Continue reading
Growing Lettuce from Seed
My latest seed germination project is lettuce. Cos lettuce, to be precise. Nick prefers Iceberg but we never get through a whole head before it starts to deteriorate so it feels wasteful, whereas with Cos you just pick what you need (and I don’t have to clean slimy, forgotten lettuce leaves out of my vegetable … Continue reading
{Results} Pricking out Tomatoes
Some of you may remember that a few weeks ago I decided to prick out some of my tomatoes because they were competing with some other seedlings. At the time I was slightly concerned that I had transplanted them early because their true leaves hadn’t come through yet. Well, today I was outside (repotting some … Continue reading
Planning the Vegetable Patch
This year, in an attempt to stay on top of my vegetable patch (and my plans for companion planting) I thought I would actually plan out my vegetable patch. It turns out that, ideally, it looks a little something like this: It also turns out that, although I know which plants I want to plant, I … Continue reading
{Book Review} The Australian Vegetable Garden
I’d been umming and ahhing about whether to buy “The Australian Vegetable Garden” by Clive Blazey for a few months when I came across it at the local library. I immediately borrowed the book and decided to read through it to help me make up my mind. At the end of reading through it, I’m … Continue reading
Pricking out Tomatoes
As you’ve probably all realised by this point, I’ve had some trouble growing tomatoes from seed. While that all seems to have sorted itself out, it occurred to me that I would probably need to prick my tomatoes out. Until I went to the seminar on growing vegetables from seed, I’d never heard of this … Continue reading
Raised Garden Beds
Recently Nick came into a little bit of money, and he agreed that I could have some of it to spend on whatever I wanted. “Excellent!” I exclaimed. “That means I can get some raised beds and begin my Backyard Makeover.” “Really?” he said to me, incredulous. “That’s what you’re going to spend your money … Continue reading
