Back to Basics
November 23rd 2011 10:52
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Growing your
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own veges
Getting back to basics and growing our own food.
With a decent sized back yard and time to tend a vegetable garden, I've finally established one.
I've started small to gain confidence and see if I can actually grow something that's edible.
I've started with tomatoes, capsicum, chillies, silver beet, strawberries, lettuce and cucumbers.
I also have herbs in separate pots.
So far we have harvested tomatoes, lettuce and silverbeet and there is a capsicum just screaming to change colour and be picked.
I think I am slowly discovering the joys that many ancestors would have had when they had to grow their own food. It may sound cliched but it truly is satisfying to go and pick fresh vegetables for dinner.
And the flavour! No more underripe, flavourless, gutless tomatoes from the supermarket for us...unless of course we run out :\
My next step will be to expand the garden and try some trickier veges to grow.
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Comment by Jean Thompson
We have 25 Blue Berry Bushes we planted several years ago and they are just coming into production... also have Elderberries and Thornless Blackberries.. and I planted more Rhubarb in a Raised bed..
Comment by Samantha Elley
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What do you do with all your berries?