Veggie Garden Update

I’m not sure if I’ve spoken about my veggie patch before? If not, then here is a quick rundown for you all.
It’s about 3m x 10m and is fenced off from the rest of the yard by a 4ft fence. When we moved in it was overgrown with weeds (thistles in particular), so after a lot of pulling and cleaning I found that the soil there was less than average and very sandy.

Having all good intentions of making loads of compost, I started dumping the lawn clippings into a heap at one end. This has now turned into a huge pile of grass clippings (not compost). Today I spread it all out and have began watering it and will add some horse manure to it and stir it up a little to kill the little weed seeds that are living in there.

So now it’s onto the contents. I’ve got 6 cabbages that have began to head up nicely. There are three tomato’s, some very small spring onions, some Pak Choy, lettuces, a couple of Chinese broccoli and one pumpkin.

Over the summer time there will be a shade house erected to protect them all from the 40+ degree (Celsius) days.

Underneath the straw (kinda hard to see) is about 15 dwarf snap beans, more spring onions, spinach, coriander, lettuce and some baby carrots.