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Sunday 8th March 2009

Bron, How Does Your Garden Grow?

It’s thrives on neglect mostly.
And what doesn’t survive, well then we go without.
That said, I think I’ve managed quite well this year and I’d like to share a few photos of some of our successes and we’ll just forget about those failures until next season when we’ll try again, shall we?!

Strawberry

Mmm who can resist? Strawberries

Carrots and Salad Greens

Carrots with legs, Lettuce with frills

Zucchini Courgettes

Some call them Zucchini, others Courgettes

Zucchini Blossom

Zucchini Blossom

Peas Pods Potatoes Pickers

Peas - Pods - Potatoes - People Pea Pickers Podding!

Raspberries Strawberries

Mmmm Berries Again - Raspberries and Strawberries

Cauliflower Seedling

A Youngin’ - Cauliflower Seedling

Scarlet Runner Beans

Scarlet Runner Beans, twisting vines and blossoms

Beans Yellow Roquefort Scarlet Runner

Beans Beans - Yellow Roquefort and Scarlet Runners

Tomatoes Black Krim Sweet One Hundred Cucumbers

Tomatoes x2; Black Krim and Sweet 100 and Cucumbers too!

We’re also growing Roma and Super Toms, Capsicums, Chillies; not pictured

Black Currants and Gooseberries

Blackcurrants and Gooseberries

Corn Butternut Nasturtium Chook Carrots

Corn - Baby Butternut - Nasturtiums - Hen - Carrots again!

Rhubarb

Rhubarb, rhubarb!

Anyway I hope you enjoy this wee touch of my vegetable garden and some of what we have grown throughout our Summer.
Now somewhat sadly our garden is looking a little bare in patches, although however I have planted out more cauliflowers, broccoli, silverbeet (swiss chard) and leeks recently for the change of season and to get a head start before the first frosts.
As the nights are cooler and days a little shorter and the leaves beginning to fall our diet moves away from these certain kinds of foods but begins to include walnuts, pears, apples instead, with plenty of other delights to come too.

Bron

Filed under Musings, Fruit & Veges, Garden

22 comments »

  1. Oh, Bron ! You make me dream with your fruits and vegetables…
    Zucchini flower and this rhubarb !
    Your girls are very cute by the way…

    Vanille — Sunday 8th March 2009 4:23 pm

  2. Such bounty. Great photos of your garden how I wish we could grow them here in the tropics.

    lynell — Sunday 8th March 2009 7:22 pm

  3. wonderful wonderful pics, you almost managed to make go out and dig out a veg patch in the lawn but I am wiser than that! Love this post!

    ilva — Sunday 8th March 2009 9:08 pm

  4. Only if i could grow 1/8th of what u did… wonderful, fresh homegrown harvest!

    Soma — Monday 9th March 2009 4:44 am

  5. Oh, I am so tired of winter. I think I would like to live in this garden. These photos are gorgeous.

    Erin — Monday 9th March 2009 4:59 am

  6. What a wonderful life!

    MsGourmet — Monday 9th March 2009 11:42 am

  7. What a wonderful garden! I wish i could have one like yours :)
    Regards from Portugal

    Moira — Monday 9th March 2009 12:40 pm

  8. A very impressive garden Bron. Fab photos too.

    barbara — Monday 9th March 2009 6:01 pm

  9. Bron your garden is just dreamy! I had me daydreaming in the middle of my grubby city! How nice to be surrounded by such loveliness…and having it be edible and nourishing too :)

    joey — Monday 9th March 2009 10:51 pm

  10. my word… what glorious pictures! i wish I had a garden like yours (i am not much of a gardener, but I do love the joys of home-grown things… a bit of a contradiction of terms, I thought, but you seem to prove that it can work!) i will start a proper herb garden this year though, tried tomatoes last tme, but it’s just too rainy here… ah what i’d give for your climate! ;-)

    johanna — Tuesday 10th March 2009 1:18 am

  11. I don’t have a green thumb and even if I do the mostly neglect thing, I don’t I’d get such a bounty.

    Cynthia — Tuesday 10th March 2009 7:23 am

  12. Gooseberries!
    I love gooseberries! We had a bush at my childhood home and I rarely have them now but they always make me think of being about 5 years old and just stuffing gooseberries warmed by the sun into my mouth.

    brilynn — Tuesday 10th March 2009 5:34 pm

  13. well-grown, Bron well-grown!!

    arfi — Thursday 12th March 2009 8:01 pm

  14. Wonderful pictures. I’ve been collecting seed for ever, but never find a good place to settle and start a garden.

    Pia — Saturday 14th March 2009 10:25 am

  15. What an amazing garden, very inspiring! An amazing gift of fresh home-grown produce and an appreciation of where food comes from to give your daughters. If my thumbs weren’t black and I didn’t live inner city I would love to have a garden like that.

    Rachel — Sunday 15th March 2009 2:24 am

  16. Wow, all that was raised by the neglect method? I’m so impressed Bron, that method never seems to work for me! I love your photographs as well.

    Amy I. — Wednesday 18th March 2009 10:28 am

  17. You are my hero Bron! Growing your own produce is something everyone should seriously consider. And what gorgeous pictures!! :-)

    Sneh — Wednesday 18th March 2009 4:57 pm

  18. What an amazing garden, Bron! You’re making me feel guilty for not planting my seeds today like I planned to :)

    Angela @ A Spoonful of Sugar — Thursday 19th March 2009 6:02 am

  19. Fantastic pictures and taken with loving eyes.

    Paula — Friday 20th March 2009 5:28 am

  20. Wow….lovely pictures. this is the first time to your blog…I love the photos.

    Dave Jones — Sunday 22nd March 2009 5:54 am

  21. What an amazing garden! Funny how ‘neglect’ never seems to work with mine! :D

    Y — Sunday 29th March 2009 11:39 am

  22. Hello Bron, I just discovered your website and had to write to say that I love those garden pictures. The timing is perfect as I will be starting to till my garden in a week or two. Here in eastern Canada our growing season is short so there are some things that I don’t plant but there is nothing better than the first home grown produce - I get really excited about radishes as they are the first ones to pop up after a long hard winter.

    CarlaH — Monday 27th April 2009 12:52 am

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