Gardening - A Summer Wrapup

I haven't blogged in a while about the garden so with the changing of the seasons, I thought now would be a good time to reflect on our first foray into vegie gardening.

I started this as an therapuetic exercise. It was something I could do that was away from the computer, got me outside and in the sun. However it soon grew into something that I was genuinely interested in. I found that the process of building the beds, preparing the compost and soils, and dealing with the various challanges that comes with raising vegies gave me a meditative outlet I couldn't find elsewhere.

To be honest, our garden was much more successful than I thought it would be. We were able to grow and in fact we are still growing vegetables that we eat and give to our friends and family. Of particular note of course are the marrows and corgettes, which have reached epic proportions while still retaining flavour and texture. Of course the cherry tomatos have flourished, however I am most pleased about the Egg Plants and Capsicums, which have managed to grow some very nice fruit despite being planted too close together and sharing some particularly nasty bugs.

For winter, we're planning on growing at least half of our total vegie needs. This means we're going to be focusing on staples like Peas, Brocollini, Cauliflower and Potatos. Before that, I'm going to need to rebuild a couple of the beds, both from a nutritional point of view as well as a structural point of view.

For those who are interested, I've got a garden set on flickr