Peas and Beans

Our Bean and Pea patch

 According to our crop rotation plan we are supposed to plant Beans and Peas in May. A friend told us that beans wouldn't like the frost so we only planted a few.
The first problem we came across was frames, Jerry from Gardening Australia uses bamboo lattice frames but we found that they cost to much and thought that they probably wouldn't last very long,so we used steel mesh instead ,We also found some cheap bamboo poles so we got them and made tepees out of them with wire.
We also did an experiment by soaking half the seeds in water to boost germination and were going to see which ones come up best.

Steel mesh frames

Bamboo pole frame

NEW GARDEN!

Our "New Garden"

Here we are again, four years later with news from "One point Five". 

We have begun a new garden in a new position, implementing a lot of new things we have learnt from friends, family and DVD's .

We have watched a Gardening Australia DVD explaining crop rotation using 6 beds. Nathan , aged 13, has been very  keen and industrious in applying many of the suggestions. ( see details on each post for specifics on bed preparation and care for individual crops) 

Our current total garden area is 300 sq m , 20 m x 15 m , including paths. Each bed is  8 m x 2.5 m .

We have 8 beds and are using a 6 bed rotation as mentioned above with an additional 2 bed rotation.

(mainly because we dug the beds before watching the DVD and will probably adapt this further in the future.)

We are finding that as with previous gardens GREENS grow well - Kale , Silver Beet , Pak Choi and lettuce. 

This has been great as I have been able to develop and enjoy GREEN SMOOTHIES. ( check the topic on GOOGLE and start enjoying Green smoothies yourself ) :)

The "New Garden" looking to the House

New Gardens

Hello!
We have been having a lot of success with our Garden (see Success! First Season's Fruits)and have even finished our first season! About a week ago we dug up the gardens again after the chooks being on the top one for about a week. They had previously been on the bottom garden for about a month. Improvements include wider paths and more evenly spaced veggie rows. Here are some photos of the gardens:

Garden plan

This is a plan of our Garden drawn up by my son Liam. I will put it with my future photos of Garden development if we have planted any more vegies. for more info on what is in our garden see "Current Vegies in our Garden" panel on your Right


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