Successive planting for a family of 4...
Week 1
Spring Onion 12 seeds
Onion 30 seeds
Week 2
Lettuce 10 seeds
Spinach 4 seeds
Beetroot 6 seeds
Kale 4 seeds
Week 3
Cabbage 3 seeds
Peas 10 seeds
Turnips 4 seeds
Week 4
Cauliflower 8 seeds
Lettuce 10 seeds
Week 5
Spinach 4 seeds
Beetroot 6 seeds
A blog about my HOME creating a beautiful space using re-purposed, refurbished and recycled materials, whilst renovating on a budget. KITCHEN preparing healthy and delicious meals for my family and friends with the odd naughty SWEET treat. GARDEN growing as much as we can on a suburban block.
Showing posts with label kale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kale. Show all posts
Monday, 1 April 2013
Sunday, 24 March 2013
WEEKLY TALLY - NUMBER 9
This week I had a lovely travelling family stay with us for a couple of nights and they offered to help clean up the last of the summer veggies! There are no more tomatoes left in the ground. The marrows have been pulled up and the beds weeded. I have planted all my garlic, and seedlings of cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, celery and leeks. Seeds of salad varieties have been scattered, as well as pea, snow peas and broad beans been planted behind a trellis.
With all the wind we had in Melbourne on Wednesday night and all day Thursday My pumpkins came out worse for wear, many of the have been harvested curing for winter storage. I have a few more on the vines waiting it out for another week or two until their section of the vine dies off. I planted a dedicated strawberry patch in hope that they receive more sunlight and thus produce more strawberries. My little man has fallen in love with strawberries these last few months after hating them.
18/3/13 - 24/3/13
Eggs 25
Capsicum 261 grams
Kale 240 grams
Marrow 14321 grams
Chili 42 grams
Tomato 1960 grams
Carrot 23 grams
Pumpkin 22412 grams
TOTAL 25 EGGS AND 39.259 KILOS OF FOOD
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| Over grown garden BEFORE |
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| Over grown garden BEFORE |
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| overgrown garden BEFORE |
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| Ready for winter AFTER |
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| Ready for winter AFTER |
18/3/13 - 24/3/13
Eggs 25
Capsicum 261 grams
Kale 240 grams
Marrow 14321 grams
Chili 42 grams
Tomato 1960 grams
Carrot 23 grams
Pumpkin 22412 grams
TOTAL 25 EGGS AND 39.259 KILOS OF FOOD
Monday, 11 February 2013
WEEKLY TALLY - NUMBER 3
This week has been a very productive week in the garden, with a lot of the vegetables retiring to the freezer so I can use them in winter. Zucchinis and tomato have been most productive, so those are what I have preserved.
4/2/13-10/2/12
14 eggs
6 g Bay leaves
4559 g Tomato
5597 g Zucchini
639 g Kale
1540 g Cabbage
634 g Beetroot
627 g Silver beet/Swiss chard
3074 g Trombonico marrow
TOTAL 16.676 Kilos of food and 14 eggs!
4/2/13-10/2/12
14 eggs
6 g Bay leaves
4559 g Tomato
5597 g Zucchini
639 g Kale
1540 g Cabbage
634 g Beetroot
627 g Silver beet/Swiss chard
3074 g Trombonico marrow
TOTAL 16.676 Kilos of food and 14 eggs!
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| Black Russian and Big Yellow Tomato |
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| Trombonico Marrow |
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| Beetroot |
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| Silver beet/Swiss Chard |
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| Red Cabbage |
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| Tri coloured Zucchini White (pale green), green and yellow. |
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| Very bountiful crop of tomatoes |
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
INSPIRATION!
I have had a few people tell me they can't afford to grow there own veggies, as the start up cost of a patch is too much, and this can be true! I think you can be creative about it, you don't need raised beds, or a designated veggie patch at all. Do you have an existing flower patch? Have you thought of growing 'ornamental' fruit or veggies in that space so you can serve a dual purpose?
How about Rhubarb, beautiful red stems with bright green leaves.
Kale, purple or green always looks pretty.
Stick some garlic in the ground, no one will know that it's a bulb of garlic instead of a daffodil (well i won't) and garlic flowers are so pretty!
Who said veggies need to be grown in a veggie patch?
Globe artichokes are such a feature! Big and bold and you can get a purple variety as well!
A bay tree makes a great screen, perfect for winter soups and flavoring stocks and stews. Mine cost me under $5 and is now huge, and produces enough leaves for me to pick from it a couple of times a week!
Rainbow silver beet are so so pretty, with shades of red, pink, orange and yellow, why not add a splash of colour to your flower garden through winter? Something similar would be beetroot, great splash of colour!
You can get some wonderfully bright and multi-coloured chilis! And they do magnificently well inside on a warm window sill! move them outside in summer and you will enjoy you chili plant for years!
Cabbages look great as a boarder, get one like a savoy, bluey, pinky, purpuley with beautifully crinkled leaves! LOVE!
I grew my cucumbers and pumpkins over an arch last summer, why not so this in your yard, no patch required and not much space is used up, just dig a hole and plant your creeper in! I had so many cucumbers i couldn't keep up!
Herbs do so well in a window box, inside or out, in among your flowers!
So who cares if you have no 'patch' and get creative inter-planting in your flower garden and reap the reward of home grown veggies!
How about Rhubarb, beautiful red stems with bright green leaves.
Kale, purple or green always looks pretty.
Stick some garlic in the ground, no one will know that it's a bulb of garlic instead of a daffodil (well i won't) and garlic flowers are so pretty!
Who said veggies need to be grown in a veggie patch?
Globe artichokes are such a feature! Big and bold and you can get a purple variety as well!
A bay tree makes a great screen, perfect for winter soups and flavoring stocks and stews. Mine cost me under $5 and is now huge, and produces enough leaves for me to pick from it a couple of times a week!
Rainbow silver beet are so so pretty, with shades of red, pink, orange and yellow, why not add a splash of colour to your flower garden through winter? Something similar would be beetroot, great splash of colour!
You can get some wonderfully bright and multi-coloured chilis! And they do magnificently well inside on a warm window sill! move them outside in summer and you will enjoy you chili plant for years!
Cabbages look great as a boarder, get one like a savoy, bluey, pinky, purpuley with beautifully crinkled leaves! LOVE!
I grew my cucumbers and pumpkins over an arch last summer, why not so this in your yard, no patch required and not much space is used up, just dig a hole and plant your creeper in! I had so many cucumbers i couldn't keep up!
Herbs do so well in a window box, inside or out, in among your flowers!
So who cares if you have no 'patch' and get creative inter-planting in your flower garden and reap the reward of home grown veggies!
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