Home-made Vegetable Garden
My parents have successfully been growing their own vegetables in garden pots at home, since they don’t have an actual garden. And since they managed to grow them so easily, my brother was keen on having their own garden too.
So last weekend, my dad went over to my brother’s place and helped them create a vegetable garden in a section of their garden. Dina, suggested we should have one too. Little did I know the amount of pain I’d be in afterwards.
We decided that an 8 sqm (24 sq ft) area would be big enough for a vegetable garden with a large enough variety of vegetables to be planted. It sound like such a small area, well it is a small area, except if you struggle for 3 hours to remove the grass. Who knew that grass roots were so resilient and tough!
So after pain-staking 3 hours of work, this was the result of phase 1:
Now that the grass and remaining roots have been removed began the easy job, for my dad, planting the various seedlings bought. We now have mielies (corn), green and purple lettuce, peppers, cherry tomatoes, rhubarb, aubergine (eggplant), spinach, watermelon, parsley, basil and peppermint.
So this is what phase 2 looked like – looks good, doesn’t it?
And then just one more final touch to keep Max from walking all over the plants and crushing them, a little protection was needed:
So, hopefully in a few months time we’ll be able to reap some fruits vegetables of our labour and I’ll post some more pictures and an updated post.
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Hey boet, nice patch. Nice pun on the fruit but you know that a tomato really is a fruit, right?
Don’t stick it in a fruit salad though! It looks like you need some kaka, or compost, on your patch because it looks like the soil is a little poor. Do you have a large butt? I don’t think a large butt would look big in this – garden of yours. It would be great for gathering free water for your garden. We have 3 and they are fantastic! Free water from the heavens that you don’t have to pay your utility company for, and no blooming tax on it either. Nice! I hope you have a blooming good time and get lots of fruit and veg!
@Babis, thanks mate. Yeah tomatoes are also regarded as fruits although they don’t go too well in fruit-salads, so we’ll keep them for the Greek ones, m’kay?
We planted the seedlings with soil improver and I’ll keep an eye on them during the week and if they start looking like they need better soil I’ll get some more the weekend.
We might just need to get a butt for our garden with the hot summer weather we’ve been having the dams have probably dried up/been used up already. I don’t think we’ll be putting Fruit & Veg City out of business any time soon but at least we’ll hopefully have a few ‘free’ veggies
I’m laughing so hard I can hardly stay seated!! (conversation between Babis and you)
That’s looking like a great start Sweetie! You’ll need to dedicate an entire blog site for all the updates and photos when your garden takes off. Then you will need to post photos of all the good food Dina will be cooking from all the vegetables it produces. I can’t wait until I get mine going again this year.
I am looking forward to watching the progression. Best of luck for a ton of good veggies.
@Koukla – thanks Sweetie. After the amount of effort and work that went into it (and I can still feel the aches and pains this morning) I really hope we can get some good vegetables for Dina to add to our meals.
We’re working on getting the Baroutsos Family blog online soon and I might very well post those updates there – but I’ll keep y’all updated
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