New Years Vegetable Gardening

The first few pictures show what the vegy patch is looking like at the moment.

We have unusually reached our first 30+ degree day just after Christmas. Rather late according to our local meteorological history.

The last picture with me holding the compost is great I reckon. It's beautiful! This is the first batch of compost I have made and looking back, I think of the amount of food scraps etc I put into the bin and how it has broken down to the amount I have now is amazing. I would have put in 5 to 6 bins worth of scraps/clippings etc. So it's taken 18 to 24 months to do it. It smells nice (not foul) and I will soon put it into my vegetable garden. Then I'll start the process again. I have another bin beside it which is a little way off yet.

Harvested all the garlic. About 5kgs worth. I'll give some garlic to family and friends. While digging up the garlic I found about 3 kilos of potatoes. These potatoes grew from tubers left in the ground from last season. Next season I promise to harvest the garlic early to mid December. This season was abit late I think.

As per my twitter posts @vegygardener, I have sowed in the last few days carrots, zuchini, cucumber, cos lettuce, started to space out the capsicums, done more pulling weeds, removed all of the dill plants (they were starting to take over the patch), and cleaned up the last of the tomatoes by trimming and tieing them back to stakes. I also added cow manure to the soil as some areas where I planted the lettuce and zuchini seeds looked fallow.

I noticed that the mint seeds I planted last year were growing near the asparagus plants I have. After removing all the dill I found the mint. A nice surprise I might add. This mint I planted last season is a really strong scented one which I like. So I'm happy with that.

Also noticed a plant or two of rock melon growing near the potatoes. This is from seed left unoticed in the ground from last season. The same with the tomotoe plants near the asparugus.


Til next time, happy gardening! You can also follow me on twitter if desired at @vegygardener.