the garden I have always wanted - Real Mum story on MoM

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its taken time, a lot of effort and a lot of money (hence the time) but the garden vegetable plots are finally underway and going great again. We lost everything we had planted (around $100 worth of plants and seedlings) during the summer heat wave (4 days over 40 in Vic) everything just crisped up and died.

now we have 2 of the 4 plots going again, and they are blooming, cant wait to be harvesting the spinach, cabbage, broc and cauli, got plans on getting more in, just got to work out where to trim the budget, to include a couple of punnetts of seedlings

Posted anonymously, 16th May 2014

18 Comments

- - mom81879 said
  - 20 Sep 2015
    1:39 pm
Good for you! I’m also in the process of getting a veggie garden up,and running. I love my fresh grown veggies. Looking forward to harvest time

- - mom113055 said
  - 02 May 2015
    3:55 pm
top story

- - mom113055 said
  - 18 Apr 2015
    3:16 pm
top story to read great

- - mom57522 said
  - 11 Jan 2015
    1:17 pm
We put up shade covers and that saved a lot of our veggies.

- - catgrrl3 said
  - 28 May 2014
    9:05 pm
that heat wave we had this summer was a killer, a lot of gardens ended up dead instead of productive, lets hope to a more productive summer this year with no heatwaves, just nice weather

- - coppin85 said
  - 28 May 2014
    5:07 pm
we lost a lot too…

- - scottie said
  - 28 May 2014
    1:50 pm
we lost a lot of plants in the heat wave too

- - meimei said
  - 24 May 2014
    7:13 pm
Well done!!! You and family can enjoy fresh veggies from garden.

- - twinmum2 said
  - 23 May 2014
    9:10 am
There’s nothing healthier, tastier or more satisfying than eating your own home grown crops of veggies and herbs.

- - Kelly said
  - 17 May 2014
    9:56 pm
we get very hot spells in adelaide so i found investing in some shade cloth has been great for us it keeps the real midday hot sun off the plants and then i just pull it back towards the end of the day, its great

- - hopefullyheidi said
  - 17 May 2014
    2:25 pm
There has been some great autumn weather here in Vic for our gardens to flourish the last week or so. I looked out my kitchen window and it never fails to make me feel a sense of achievement to see my little patch growing nicely.

- - hopefullyheidi said
  - 17 May 2014
    2:28 am
I’m in Vic and I totally agree. I have a winter crop in and it seems to be favourable so far. Let’s keep our fingers crossed

- - arcticwynta said
  - 16 May 2014
    11:49 pm
oh that’s great to hear and gardening is always great when you can look back and see just what you have done and how well ever thing is growing.Good on you’s for all your hard work

- - christial said
  - 16 May 2014
    10:53 pm
Enjoy your crops! Love eating things fresh from the garden!

- - tamandimmy said
  - 16 May 2014
    7:54 pm
Great work, and the fact you grew it means it will taste all the better

- - mel1 said
  - 16 May 2014
    6:46 pm
Well done. Enjoy your winter veggies.

- - damish70 said
  - 16 May 2014
    10:43 am
The way you’re going I think you’ll be supplying all your family & friends this season with fresh organic vegies. Well done!

- - tilly said
  - 16 May 2014
    9:56 am
Sounds like you will have plenty of supply. I did the summer plants as well and all got burnt, I also found that because the heat arrived late that they did not grow as much either.