The Moosey Vegetable Garden

Oh dear. I'm not consistently good at looking after my vegetable garden. Some years it has suffered dreadfully - all the lettuces have bolted, and the tomatoes have refused to grow.

I can, however, manage to produce a decent crop of potatoes - as long as I remember to dig them up...

Garden Extended

In the winter of 2009 I extended the garden area, after seeing an inspiring vegetable garden in Washington DC. I planted a sweet little English Lavender hedge around the sides, and brought it loads of compost and mulch.

In a solemn memorial moment, I spread the last ever load of manured straw from the late Moosey Plymouth Barred Rock hens around. I'm still finding little striped feathers in the mulch. Oh dear - I miss those lovely chooks!

Now I have plans for the grass path around the edge to be replaced by flat stones - that's for the future. I'll wait until Non-gardening Partner complains about the tight curves the lawn mower has to make.

Snacking on fresh peas is a great reward for a hard day's gardening. And for a few short weeks my vegetable garden offers me these green delights - if I get bored, or just hungry during the gardening day, I can pick the pods and happily munch. Yum! There's room for extra pea rows, carrots and beans, leeks and parsnips for winter, onions and the like.

I've laid a couple of brick mini-paths which curve through the plot, and there's a huge pot planted with raspberries in the middle. I'll be adding a black-currant and maybe some strawberries next summer.

Yippee! Water and Food!

And this year for the first time I have a hose which reaches the vegetable garden. This is terribly exciting! Honestly... I'm also remembering to 'feed' my tomatoes with an organic comfrey tea. Is this finally the awakening of a new, responsible vegetable gardener? Hee hee.