Backyard Farming...

Growing vegetables... our new pastime !

Around about March this year, we demarcated a vegetable patch in the front of our garden. My thinking was, that it needs to be as close to us as possible and always in our line of sight so that I won't forget the watering. So far so good.
About two weeks before that we bought some pumpkin seeds and planted them habdash around the garden. With dejection we noticed no movement there, and none since !

When we got all the soil and manure for the vegetable patch ( fetching it from the community site involving plenty of shovelling ) we excitedly bought a few packets of seeds relevant to the spring planting season. As complete gardening novices we just followed the pictures on the back of the packet ( having a few heated discussions in the process ) and crossed our fingers.
Gosh, everyday we ran outside to see if anything was happening. The day we saw the first sprout coming through, we jumped about like children, gleefully happy.

Bolstered by this success, we filled an old bath tub with stones and manure and my Mum gave us a cucumber plant. In the beginning it just looked like a bath filled with mud, but bit by bit some runners appeared, then big leaves, and now it is a real feature. The added bonus is that we have had a few cucumbers already. Wow, what a nice taste sensation. Homegrown and no pesticide. How much better could life get...

The funny thing is, that the manure we fetched from our village, was obviously put there by the local farmers, from their stables and fields. When Harry was here, he discovered a tomato plant in our vegetable patch. A nice little freebee, that makes a nice salad addition.

Biggi

Our little Bathtub...

Homegrown always tastes better.