Our edible garden

My first entry about improving the house rather than demolishing it. Unfortunately I need to lump in some demolition too because the gardening photos are the only ones that have the pergola type thing at the back that I pulled down. So here goes.

There was already a raised bed when we moved in, but it wasn't really up to much. First thing was to clear it out.

You'll notice that the back corner is decidedly gloomy despite it being a bright day. That's the cause of the pergola-ish structure, the purpose of which boggles the mind. It must go! But more on that later.

So, original plants ousted we laid a foundation of newspaper and manure and waited. We then had one cubic metre of soil delivered. One cubic metre doesn't sound much, but goodness me it is. Et voila!

So while R pottered about with plants, I got busy with more manly things.

Ripping down the shade cloth really made a difference to that back corner. The structure was full of nasty looking black spiders. A bit of research identified them an Victorian Funnelwebs, which aren't nasty at all even though they're similar to the Sydney variety.

So the garden was planted with all sorts of delectables...tomatoes, peas, chillies, beans, strawberries, a couple of difference lettuces, silverbeet, zucchinis and basil.

Here are some progress pictures:

The zucchini was definitely the most successful of that crop, followed by the chilli. The tomatoes went OK, but we weren't inundated as we were lead to believe we would be. We never got to try the silverbeet as it was food of choice for our resident possum Pinky.

Now that we have the angel with paws/black hairy devil, these are but fond memories.