25 Thursday Oct 2012
One of the things I had to consider when signing up was how to ensure the plants were always watered. I don’t live in the city, nor work there, so the idea of heading into town every couple of days (or every single day when Melbourne throws those plus-40-degree days at us) was not something I wanted to do.
So may I introduce to you my watering brigade –
Craig
Alecia
Thanks guys, hopefully I can repay you with loads of yummy home-grown veggies!
15 Monday Oct 2012
Posted in Planting, Propagating, Seeds
Two weeks after planting the seeds, it became clear that the half-toilet rolls weren’t going to hold the rapidly growing beans for much longer. It was time to transfer them to our garden.
Carefully packed into a left over case of beer box, the beans got on a 67 tram to the city, amidst some curious peak hour onlookers.
We planted the beans in rows around the corn – the two types of plants grow well together – something to do with potassium, although I’m unsure which plant has it, and which needs it.
Bean seeds planted: fourteen.
Bean plants transferred to the garden: twelve.
We’re definitely counting that as success 🙂
13 Saturday Oct 2012
So the time had come to pick our patch, and after a tiny bit of wandering around the car park, we settled on this one.
It had some very nice things going for it –
1. A view of the river.
2. A ledge for leaning on over Friday afternoon beers.
3. Close proximity to conveniently placed bench seats and umbrellas.
Having no real idea of what to plant where, thankfully (and to be honest, one of the very best reasons to sign up to the project) Matt from the Little Veggie Patch was on hand to help, telling us all the useful stuff such as:
– which of our chosen plants would benefit from the full sun (tomatoes and capsicum);
– which plants are the socialisers who like to grow in a group (corn);
– which plants are likely to get a bromance on (corn and beans); and
– which ones are likely to grow a little nuts and cover the carpark concrete under our feet (pumpkin).
Before we knew it, we had planted our vegetable garden.
Grow little garden, grow!
29 Saturday Sep 2012
Posted in Propagating
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Having very little in the way of afl finals fever, it seems that a beautiful day means only one thing in the life of a budding gardener – time to plant beans!
Bean score: fourteen seeds
23 Sunday Sep 2012
Posted in Seeds
Insanely excited to receive our Popup Patch Welcome pack in the mail.
An extra nice touch was the postcard placed in exactly page 34, telling us to go forth and propagate beans! Together with a seeds and seedlings shopping list, it actually feels like the project is actually happening.
From Little Seeds Big Things Grow 