Friday, July 16, 2010

Veg About: New Raised Beds

These new raised beds are part of our latest attempt to grow vegies in a dry environment. Our garden has free-draining, sandy soil, and the sunniest spot is below the neighbours' large, water-sucking Eucalyptus tree. With drought and water restrictions in place, it's a challenging site for a vegie patch.

Last year I used self-watering tubs, which worked well, but needed to be filled with potting mix rather than our lovely home-made compost. This meant less nutritious soil and an ongoing expense.

This year Mister Bell's dad whipped up these raised beds from corrugated iron offcuts. Mister Bell altered them a bit, and the Bug and I made them into 'no-dig' gardens with layers of weeds, used potting mix and compost.

So far we've planted broccoli, spring onions, peas, celery, parsely and coriander, which I'm listing under the Veg About button on my left sidebar.

Would you like to join the Veg About and blog about your patch?

4 messages:

Renae said...

ohhh! Yay so excited to see Veg About again! I'll do the necessary things to my blog (including actually posting about my veggie patch!) and sign up on the weekend.

Your raised beds look great!

Sally said...

Your raised garden beds look fantastic. What a brilliant idea. YAY!

Angie said...

Love those raised beds!

I like how gardening is so adaptable to what you have to work with & what the site is like.

I was so slack with the Veg About last time that I'll need to commit to actually making the time to join in properly before I sign up this time. Perhaps signing up will encourage me to get into it more!

In the mean time I'm looking forward to watch everyone's patches.

Joanne said...

They do look wonderful and old-fashioned. My pop used to have corrugated iron about that height only his was all rusted red around his vegetable garden. I love that look!