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| okra seedling, who's for gumbo? | | |
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As part of my new sustainability drive I've caught the gardening bug. I've been playing around with the garden a bit for the last 18 months or
so (well frankly it needed it). We've been planting anything and
everything we can think of, including fruit seeds and grains from the store, just because you can. But now I've gone a bit further. I
cajoled Viriamu (and it took some doing) into installing a raised bed outside our back door, it's studded with a few stunted looking plants at the moment (OK
you can't learn everything in a few weeks), there are also a whole variety of seedlings
newly put out into my ever expanding garden patch and others poking up
from newspaper plant pots (an excellent recycling idea from LHITS).
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| climbing spinach |
I suspect I'm being a bit too ambitious, but I've been able to get hold of some
exciting fruit and veggie seeds, from climbing spinach and
okra, to kiwis and passion fruit, as well as some odd things like cape
gooseberries and luffas.
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| Passion fruit and papayas |
I'm trying to stay realistic, as I really know
zip about gardening, but I have high hopes that we will be able to eat a
homegrown cherry tomato or two in the months that come........and who knows, maybe even get a rub-down with our homegrown bath sponges!
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| Luffa seedling, loving a good horse-manure mulch |
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