Another Veggie Garden

I've learnt the Bunnings is not the best place for buying seedlings. For some reason they feel that $3 for a single seedling is acceptable. I was after some tomato seedlings due to leaving my run to grow from seed too late. After much digging, I found a punnet with about half a dozen tomatoes in it. Some for the garden and some to try upside down tomatoes! I decided to go seeds for the remainder of my crop...









So back at home, it was time to give the front garden another turn and weed. The soil is nice, dark and rich so fingers crossed that it's good for the veggies this year.









I've planted about 4 tomatoes plants (went for grosse lisse this year as the Roma were duds last year!), 2 rows of corn, some zucchini and some golden nugget pumpkins the latter of which are a small individual serve pumpkin about the size of a large fist. I've grown these before with much success in both growing and eating!









This picture below is the first of the garden - look closely to the left and you can see the itty tomatoes -

The back garden continues to grow but the problem with broccoli flowering early continues to frustrate. This is most likely due to irregular watering or overcrowding, both very likely in my back garden! - I've started watering regularly and will hope for the best, but I think their season is over. After some recent rain, Another row of broccoli has emerged from previous seed plantings. These have been thinned out and will hopefully give me another chance at broccoli this year!

The silverbeet that was planted some time back has turned out to be beetroot - the first of which is just about ready to harvest- i guess theirs a lesson to be learnt here about buying cheap seeds from Go Lo! The lettuce continue to amaze. It does seem to be a breeding ground for slugs, but interestingly they are doing no damage. I'm yet to see any full grown slugs, but if they turn out to be leopard slugs, then this is good as they eat snails! Other slugs as are bad as the snails though but control will be difficult given the dogs in the same yard

Anyway, Will finish up here with a picture of Buddy and Scruff enjoying the recently weeded and sprayed lawn out the back - it is coming back nice and green and I've decided that is very likely due to the beer tonic that I'd put on it a month or two back (beer, seasol and fabric softner)