Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?

[Cornish Cream]

Beautiful garden Chookie.It all looks so lush.

[Cuilidh]

Your garden looks great.  You are certainly getting a bountiful harvest of goodness.

[achookwoman]

Thanks for the nice comments girls.  Love the garden but is a lot of work.  The veggie patch is a bit of a mess at the moment as we are waiting for a landscaper to replace the fence around it. Now we have the wicking beds which are much more efficient than the plots, we are reducing the size of the beds.  Will still grow potatoes, garlic and silver beet in the ground, as well as the berries.

[obbie]

picked 3 huge bags of mandarins and lemonades this morning. Off to make marmalade.

[achookwoman]

Obbie, will you make separate lots of lemon and mandarins marmalade?
Have a look at the lemon and carrot marmalade. It is very nice.

[obbie]

ACW I will thanks, have made 3 lots of lemonade and mandarin marmalade so far. but have heaps more fruit..

[Liz_M_]

Cookie your garden looks amazing.    I have a VERY small raised garden and I only have zucchini and english spinach going at the moment, herbs and I am currently establishing swan plants for the monarch butterflies which are breeding here.        We have three compost bins on the go all the time.   We didn't bother with much this year because there are only the two of us and by the time stuff ripens it is very cheap in the market.     I love having the fresh herbs for cooking.   I almost forgot to mention the Blackboy peach trees (3) and one Queen peach.   

[achookwoman]

Liz, all sounds lovely.  Love the raised gardens and always grow too much. We try to eat something from the garden every day.  Today only parsley and garlic in the garlic bread and Apples in the Apple Cake Tart.

[Cuilidh]

I've only got garlic and broad beans in my garden at the moment ... hopefully they will survive the hens, rabbits and kangaroos.

[cookie1]

We have a very minimum maintenance garden so that we are free to go away when we wish. I have lots of roses and some herbs. I have recently planted a couple more climbing geraniums on fences.

[KristySpiegl]

After I injured my back six months ago DH promised to build me some raised garden beds for my veggies. This is the current state of affairs. He has now gone away for three weeks. Sigh. Maybe next year haha

[judydawn]

LOL Kristy, his intentions were good.  Wouldn't it be great if you could get someone to finish it whilst he was away.

[obbie]

lots of passion fruit on our vines here.

[achookwoman]

The gardeners have set up the watering system while we have been away.

[KristySpiegl]

LOL Kristy, his intentions were good.  Wouldn't it be great if you could get someone to finish it whilst he was away.

I'm incredibly tempted to just do it myself seeing as I am having a good week movement wise. He must have predicted this before he left though because my tech bit for my drill is mysteriously gone.