Alan's Garden Blog

This is my crop. Not too shabby. Dried in the cool, this will last us most of the year. For best results stop feeding all nitrogen, like compost, two or thee months from harvest. As soon as this was harvested I added lots of compost and some Earthlife vegemate to the soil then planted lettuce, Q's, spring onions, tomatoes and basil.

If you purchased the potential yield of what's in the Extra Large Watersaver Garden below at Woolworths that's what it would cost. This is not factoring the extra it would cost if you hunted for organic products. coming along nicely 9 July Been away in Melbourne visiting daughters so this has got away on me. You can see just how much you can grow without the effort, and save money. Photo 29 August. 

We grow our own here. Buy the seed from an asian supermarket and plant six seeds in each hole. This is particularly important in summer as they tend to 'bolt'. Water till their proper leaves form and then let the watersaver garden take over. Snip them off as you need them but leave some in the ground to get the roots for curries. A whole lot better than the tired stuff from the supermarkets.  

Part of a large job for delivery to Sue Welburn who is doing a job in Kenmore. I'm impressed with her work, if you live in or around Brisbane and looking for ideas and a professional job check it out at:   www.greenspiritlandscapes.com 

Hi Alan,  Just sending you the promised photos and update on my XL and Jumbo wicking beds, installed late March 2022. Current crops include bush beans, bush sugar snap peas, capsicum, Golden Nugget pumpkins, onions, sweetcorn, bush watermelon, various determinate tomatoes, determinate cherry tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, early yellowrocket and Spacemaster Cucumber. I live in a coastal area with very high winds, so have chosen bush versions wherever possible rather than climbers.  Wind was also an issue with my veggie-net. The bulldog clips that you sent with the canopy kit just didn’t cut it, unfortunately. I’ll outline what I did...