|
I'm another... We have a community veggie patch which in reality is used by just 3-4 keen residents, and the best part is we can enlist our gardener for the heavy lifting.
Ours is about 5 metres x 15 metres and we keep it chock full so weeds don't get much of a chance.
We have a Nagami cumquat, lemon, australian lime, kafir lime all espaliered against a wall at the back, then the tall things like corn and tomatoes, progressively lower things at the front.
Only problem we had is the flying foxes which will take any fruit the size of a Roma tomato or cucumber, so things have to be small.
As per your wife's cousin, yes we plant a few things each month so the output is progressive, rather than having stuff going to waste one week and nothing the next. Lettuces, various spicy salad greens, baby beets and tomatos especially.
Rhubarb does well, four plants are enough for a steady supply. Also some things can be picked and will re grow quickly that might surprise you - spring onions, fennel, English spinach - usually no need to replant these.
We tried pumpkins, cucumbers, eggplants and zucchinis last year - pretty disappointing results - so won't bother with these again.
|