First lesson learnt from the patch: think carefully about what (and how big) your plants will grow. This week we realised that our zucchinis are growing so well they have dwarfed the pumpkins, the beans and the capsicum.

Unfortunately, this means that we had to cull some plants, all for the health of the patch. Whilst savvy gardeners may be well used to this, it broke our hearts a little to see them go in the bin 😦

– Super useful wheelie-rubbish-compost bin

We’re also finding quite a few suspicious looking foreign plants in our patch – they look quite a lot like snow peas. Unfortunately for them and as pretty as they are, they’re not wanted, and as many a gardener has said before me:

”If I don’t want it in my garden, then it’s a weed.”

– Ladybirds mean we’ll get lucky, right?