Vegetable Garden Makeover

The weather here is wonderful at the moment - warm, with the odd hint of a cool breeze. Great weather to plant more seedlings into my vegetable garden. Remember to click on each photo for enlargement.

The broccoli grew to an impressive height, but the heads were disappointing. I think the whole crop bolted due to the unseasonably warm weather. In the pic above they are pulled up, piled in the foreground.

See the broad bean plants in the picture below. Amazing! I have put the "wheelie" bin next to them to indicate scale. And they are still flowering. Imagine the crop from this forest!





In place of the broccoli I have planted 24 lettuce - three varieties. Here they are mulched with pea straw.





To the right of the lettuce I have planted 4 tomato plants - "Mighty Red" variety. My method is to dig a trench, then drive climbing stakes, then plant the tomatoes. Tomatoes hate root shock, so it's a good idea to get all construction and clearing done before planting. I can then trickle water into one end of the trench and water will flow to all plants.
Saves time and effort.

I also have 4 other tomato plants to put into my garden. These are cherry tomato varieties. I haven't cleared the ground for these yet so the planting will have to wait until the school holidays which begin in three days.

Hope you found my vegetable garden interesting.

I'm going to leave you with something which emerged in my front garden recently from a bulb I'd planted a year ago: