Tanya Shar's Vegie garden

Created on Sunday, 10 Aug 08

Another organic-as-possible vegie garden :)

Shar has dismantled the cubby house and we’re going to use the wood panels to build up part of the backyard into a no-dig/square-foot-garden amongst the fruit trees that we planted in early August.

We get a fair bit of frost over winter up here compared to the rest of Greater Melbourne, more than the surrounding BOM weather sites would reveal as we are in a valley. We’ve been told that it’s icily cold coming though this area comparatively. We have some greenhouse plastic to use, but are yet to construct it into a useful form (ideas are bubbling madly for this one!)

We’re also going to grow in pots on our voluptuous veranda and balcony. Mmmm…sexy vegies out the windows! What else could one want? Please see “Mountain View” garden for these.

Organic Garden

Garden Type: Backyard | Sun: Partial Sun | Soil: Loam

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Rocket

Eruca sativa

Started off growing these between moistened paper towel in a zip-lo...

Planted on 03 Aug 08
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Snow Pea

Pisum sativum var. macrocarpon

Oh yummy!

Planted on 03 Aug 08
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Onion 'Red Brunswick'

Allium cepa var. cepa

I think these germinate in 10 days or so, will have to wait a few m...

Planted on 03 Aug 08
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Common Bean 'Purple King'

Phaseolus vulgaris

These have gotten nice and soft and two are just starting to break ...

Planted on 03 Aug 08
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Common Bean 'Lazy Housewife'

Phaseolus vulgaris

These are doing great.

Planted on 03 Aug 08
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Dwarf Bean 'borlotto'

Phaseolus vulgaris

These beans have thick shells too. Only just starting to get squis...

Planted on 03 Aug 08
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Romanesco Broccoli

Brassica oleracea

Planted on 03 Aug 08
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Sage

Salvia officinalis

Planted on 03 Aug 08
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Borage 'Blue'

Borago officinalis

Planted on 03 Aug 08
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Mixed Lettuce

Lactuca sativa

The mixed lettuce is down the bottom of the sheet in the 7 day phot...

Planted on 03 Aug 08
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Fig

Ficus carica

Planted on 02 Aug 08
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Josephine Pear

Pyrus communis

Planted on 02 Aug 08
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Packham Pear

Pyrus communis

Don't think we did the greatest job of pruning this one back (it's ...

Planted on 02 Aug 08
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Apple (Gala and Pink Lady)

Malus domestica

Planted on 02 Aug 08
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Lemon

Citrus x limon

Don't know how old this tree is, it might be a dwarf as it's alread...

Planted on 01 May 05
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