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Say hello to our little friends

07 Sunday Apr 2013

Posted by in Capsicum, Carrots, Growing, Herbs, Lettuce, Planting, Seeds, Spinach, Vegetables

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It’s officially Autumn. Cool nights and brisk days have arrived. There is excitement around the Patch, with pretty much everyone planting new crops – walking around the crates is a guessing game of what-do-you-think-is-that-seedling?

On our list this season:

Snap sugar peas (handy to have our tomato trellis already installed)
Snow peas (Lisa likes them loads)
Lettuce (Cos)
Carrots (yes, we’re trying them again)
Chives
Baby spinach

Mystery interloper:

Kale – two plants have mysteriously arrived in our patch. Unknown source. We think we’ll eat them anyhow.

The Big Lesson #1 – Don’t plant too much stuff

The mystery plant, Kale (in front of Craig, not where he is pointing)

New plants on the block

Beans meanz heinz

15 Monday Oct 2012

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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 🙂

Day of the Triffids

13 Saturday Oct 2012

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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.

Ready for a closeup, Mr De Mille?

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!

Welcome pack

23 Sunday Sep 2012

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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.