Veggie garden!

My boy and I started a project earlier in the year, with the aim of feeding both of us and his family (Mum, Dad, younger sister, older sister, her husband and two little kiddly-winks) - at least as far as vegetables go.
We started out by choosing a plot of land. Unfortunately where we are, we have a very small courtyard that gets hardly any sun, so we commandeered a section of my boy's parents place - which they very kindly let us have to play with!

Digging!

It all started out with a lot of digging (which I largely missed out on, thanks to my work shifts), to loosen up the soil and mix in all sorts of mulchy-manurey goodness...

...and ended with lots of happy little plants - lettuce (3 types!), cabbage, cauliflower, silver beet, spinach, broccoli, broccolini, sugar snap peas, snow peas, other peas and beans, broad beans, carrots, onions, spring onions, leek, parsnip, beetroot, potatoes...and more!

Lettuce

This bird was so curious, it hung about the whole day!

Well, we've been harvesting lettuce, silver beet, spinach and peas for quite a while now, as this all happened before my entry into blogland. Our garden has certainly been keeping us all fed, and we've been giving veggies away to family and friends, too! We recently had to go through and thin out the carrots so the rest can grow up to be big and strong.

This means lots of little baby carrots! So I made a yummy stirfry tonight, it was so delicious, and the only thing in it that we didn't grow was the chicken! I love the idea of growing all our own vegetables - pesticide and chemical free, but the reality of it is just even better (and yummier!).

Clara
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