Archive for the ‘Vegetables’ Category
Sunday, April 18th, 2010
Finally today we were planted our first crop of vegetables in our rabbit proof vegetable patch! How exciting is that!! 
Already looking forward to eating the results!
We have got a number of varieties to plant including Maris Piper and King Edwards. We are also going to plant the non-raised beds with pots to help break up the soil and help keep the weeds down. I think we counted 86 seed potatoes in total…so I think we shall be setting up a road-side stall with ‘Waterloo Farm Potatoes’ later in the year! 
Tags: Home Grown Organic Vegetables, Potatoes, Raised Beds, Vegetable Patch
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Large Raised Bed (pre-dropping)
Having marked out the vegetable patch and sussed out that it would all fit (we even re-configured the layout to get a few more beds in) we have started to make our raised beds. Fortunately we have an ‘old-fashioned’ wood yard up the road where we sourced our pressure-treated wood.
We ordered 12 ft x 6in (3.6m x 15cm) lengths, which meant that when we cut those into thirds we could use the lenghts for the end panels. For 2010 we are only planning to make 2 large and the 2 small (wedge shaped) raised beds. So the large beds will be 3.6m long, by 1.2m wide by 30cm high and there will eventually be 8 in total!
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Tags: Home Grown Organic Vegetables, Raised Beds, Vegetable Patch
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
So, the rabbit-proof fencing has been finished and we have been making progress on the vegetable patch, hoping to plant our first crops in time for this year! I have spent more hours than I care to confess to in designing the layout of the veg patch, drawing scale plans of the raised beds and making a detailed crop rotation plan for the patch once it is fully established (more on that another time!). I guess all that makes me a little bit ’sad’ but I have really enjoyed it, and as the saying goes, it’s all in the preparation! (more…)
Tags: Kitchen Garden, Raised Beds, Vegetable Patch, Vegetable plot
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Rabbit Proof Vegetable Patch
We are very excited that at last we have the start of our vegetable patch! If you regularly follow out blog you will know that the Wildlife likes to strike back, so we have had to create Fort Knox to stop the fluffy bunnies (!) thinking we have created them a handy larder-cum-restaurant.
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Tags: Garden Improvements, Home Grown Organic Vegetables, Kitchen Garden, Vegetable Patch
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
Ditch Levelling
Well the last part of the weekend in August that we spent transforming the drive, and to some degree the garden, was spent levelling in the ditch. It is not clear from the pics, but there was a drop of over two feet from the level of the garden, and it is in this space that we plan to put our fruit cage, vegetable plot and chicken run. So this has all been on hold until we could level this off.
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Tags: Chicken run, Ditches, Fruit cage, Garden Design and Improvements, GSD Lambert and Sons, Lambert Civil Engineering, Liam Lambert, Vegetable plot
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Finally today we were planted our first crop of vegetables in our rabbit proof vegetable patch! How exciting is that!! 
