My good friends know me as a fairly quiet unassuming sorta guy.
But every now and then I've just gotta tout my own horn.
I started a project last March. I wanted to build a productive veggie garden that could supply regular produce for the kitchen and not take all the time in the world to setup and establish and maintain. My constraints; only 1000gal tank of water to use on the garden, I could only supply minimal external additives (I could buy in mulch but only use a little imported fertilizers) & no insecticide spraying. My positives; hey I teach horticulture. If anyone could do it i should be able to, you'd hope. Why do this. Well actually it was the starter project for a new course I'm hoping to run, a Certificate II in Horticulture; Suburban Production. Call it a bit of a passion of mine.
Ok the first photo is from March 8 2009 after I dids some hard yards creating simple terraces with scrap material I had lying around. This is not the sort of thing you would start with if you've never had a veggie garden before. But I wanted to show what could be done with a bit of nouse and not a huge investment of time. Generally a few hours on a weekend (very relaxing) and the odd afternoon splashing some water, light weeding (shouldn't be any to start with after correct preparation and vigilance
) and generally just enjoying the garden.
The second photo is from today, one week shy of 12 months. There are still a couple of beds that still aren't up to full fertility and production but they will be there withing 2 month if not by the end of March.
I'm pretty chuffed actually. I will admit here though that I did supplement the beds initially to get them going, but most of it has been green manure cropping, worm tea and castings (gallons and gallons of tea), and mulch Mulch, Mulch.
Any other Veggie Garden Slaves out there.
