Posted in The Vege Patch

Last year I discovered the bug for gardening, and did quite well out of our garden, so this year I planned a much bigger garden, and we are hoping to use it to reduce our grocery bill considerably.

Here is my little nursery in the spare room - it's a nice sunny north-facing spot and the children don't go in there, so the little seedlings are safe.

I have various varieties of heritage beans, onions, tons of heritage tomatoes, lettuce, corn, pumpkin, zucchini, cucumbers and this year I'm trying Luffa, Stevia, eggplant (or aubergine), jalapeno's, watermelon, spring onions, butternut, squash. In the garden already, I have sown garlic, silverbeet, peas, and parsley and chives. The potatoes are ready to go in now too, and I need to get my beets and carrots in soon.

Some of these I haven't tried before and I don't know if they'll take or not. It could be too cold for the watermelon and the jalapeno's, but I'm trying them out just for fun. The children have each planted a giant pumpkin seed each. I love looking at the little zucchini and pumpkin seedlings and it always amazes me at how big they're actually going to get by the height of summer.

Most of these things are going to be ready for harvesting and preserving right around the time our baby will be about 6 weeks old, but I figure I'll be back on my feet by then with post-pregnancy energy! I hope!