Our Vegetable Garden.

Hehe. Pusskins! Hi guys this is our chooks just for the winter-time we've gotta come up with some other kind of fencing arrangement for them later on this is the...um... chookshed that we kinda made ourselves cost us about two hundred bucks in materials They seem pretty happy or maybe not. They're telling me they want food. This is our tank that we haven't set up because we live in a rental. It's a bit windy so hopefully you can hear us. This is our dwarf cavendish that we got off Freecycle. It needs a bit of compost. It's not liking it. The reason I know is cos the outside edges of the leaves are a bit yellow. So, a bit nutrient deficient, I guess. Pusskins the cat That likes to follow us around. This is our compost at the moment. I haven't set up a proper compost. It does alright being so small we just have to continuously add dry stuff to it. This is our we've got one of our green beds; we've got some beans, and some kale and some I don't know, there's a random beetroot growing in there. cauliflower and broccoli I think and um I made it as a hoop bed to keep... um the warmth in I tried one of the members' ideas of fake white butterflies but, I think some of them still managed to get in there, but so far they've done alright Oh there you go, some broad beans there and a few weeds. And this is my first lasagna bed that I made. I've got a feel that I didn't do very good at it but it's doing alright... growing some snow peas in there, some spinach some of the brassicas, and some onions too! there, onion. And a random pumpkin! Or cucurbit of some kind popping up there. So... hopefully that'll do alright. In this bed here, I wanted to do something with it, but my partner wanted her luffas to stay on there until they dried - this one over here is drying quite nicely. These ones here need a little bit more time This is a tomato here thats still going and a cucumber *giggles* And our eggplants that are still hanging around a bit... um I thought they would die off soon because we get pretty cold here but, um... there's a couple in there that I'm... There's one in there that I'm going to try and save the seed from. if you guys can see that. and the spinach came back after being attacked by the chickens, so... *meow* Is that right pusskins? and this is the carrot bed We've got some supposed to have some, um... purple carrots growing in here. But, um... yeh, we'll see how they go. some leeks some other carrots in here, it's a bit weedy. at the moment. Some chives. Some... this might be garlic, I think. more chives carrots... I should have thinned them out, I guess, but. we juice most of our carrots, so... I'm gonna get this weed out. So... that's the carrots. and this is our 'bitsa' bed. we just chucked a whole heap of our old seeds in, and I was quite surprised to see what popped up um, you've got brassicas and tomatoes... If you jump up there Pusskins, you're gonna stack it. Is he doing it? Nup. carrots which actually coming up nicely. I'll leave them and I actually don't know what plant this is - it's a blow in, I think. see, it'll be nice to have some flowers in the beds. Tomatoes, I've got... I do have a cover on it, it's blown off at the moment. I'll put that over before the end of the evening some leeks some pineapple sage smells delicious... lettuce bulls blood beetroot ummm... whoa remnants of a what's that... squash. not gonna do much I don't think. spinach or um... what do you call it... Aww, look at this guy. Hello. Silverbeet! That's what it's called. and tomatoes in there. yeh, so... um... I didn't actually expect all these plants to pop up. Um... I just chucked all my old seeds in there. theres some lettuce in there, that we go foraging for. We chucked all the old seeds in there, and umm, hoped that we'd grow something out of it! And they obviously like the conditions. This is deficient. I'm assuming that it's magnesium I just need to do some epsom salts. which i'll do this afternoon, when I've finished this. And, ah, you can see on the plants in the center of the leaves yellowing So, I think that it's magnesium deficiency which is understandable, because tomatoes are big feeders. So, I'll try some of that and see how that goes. You did jump up on it. Yes, my partner wants to grow potatoes, in winter. It's working so far. we'll see she's having... trying her hand at growing some stuff and this bed had a few potatoes pop up, so we just kept it - we were just going to leave this one. and i want that beetroot to go to seed so, hopefully in spring it'll come up sorrel? I think. and, we're gonna pull the rest of this up. let it grow. Basil. and, out the front. Put the citrus trees near the front here for, ah... the guava tree needs shelter from the cold. And the citrus trees and the guava get alot of warmth. because the house is north facing. I keep them there to keep them warm. This is another bed where I just chucked in some old seeds. Ahh, it's been attacked by something... We've got some umm... broad beans and kale... That's about it.