Today's Backyard Adventure - More Vegies

Today I decided that I was going to do more gardening - not really surprising is it :) I decided I was going to make more garden beds for more vegies and get a half wine barrel for my horseradish to grow in.

I ended up buying some sweet corn, capsicums, zucchini and spring onions

Here is the finished product of the Horseradish in the half wine barrel - I decided to put it in a half wine barrel so that it didn't take over my garden. I think I will also add some spring onions to it this week too

Here is the horseradish in the pot that my friend Chris gave me - holes in the leaves courtesy of the chooks

Before I could put soil in the half wine barrel, I had to drill plenty of drainage holes

I also cleaned up the area that I put the half wine barrel and moved my herbs in pots to the area too

After that I needed to decide where I was going to plant the next lot of vegies, here are some before shots

I then spent a while turning over the soil in the area and trying to pull out some of the weeds too. I sprayed all the weeds yesterday so they are in the process of dying anyway.

When I was digging I found lots of really BIG wormies

And also 2 of these which I thought might have been witchety grubs but might also be white curl grub?? Whatever they are, the chooks enjoyed eating them

Here is my corn planted, 11 plants I think and spring onions all up the right hand side

Capsicums - 8 plants

4 Zucchini plants

Chook proofed!

It didn't stop the chooks trying to check it all out though - they are a bit miffed about the barrier

Vegies Update 01/11/11

It's been a while since I've done an update on my vegie patch, to be honest I haven't been doing a lot in there other than picking really.

My garlic has been attacked by aphids :( I'm hoping that they will still be ok - does anyone know what I can do about it? Should I bend the tops over?

My onions are now looking more onion shaped! You can see the shape of it at the edge of the soil - not all of them have been very good and well behaved like this but some is better than none

My broad beans have really taken off lately - they are getting so big and bushy and lots of flowers that are turning into broad beans!!

The first bed of cauliflowers and broccoli (vegie bed 2)have been cleared out now - I think I'm going to leave this bed fallow for a while or do a green manure crop. No cauliflowers grew but I blame the slugs and snails :(

My leeks are still soldiering on - no idea what I am going to do with them all though!

My snowpeas can come out now

My spring onions are awesome!! I've been picking them and they have so much flavour - I need to use more of them quicker though

The second planting of broccoli and cauliflower - the broccoli has mostly all been picked but the side shoots are still going, I hope these cauli's produce more than just leaves