April Garden update

It has now been 4 months since I started my vegie garden. Things have slowed down a bit, so I took the opportunity last weekend to rip out what was dying off, mix some compost and manure into the soil, and get ready to plant my winter crop. The planting will take place this weekend, so I have allowed the week for the soil to 'settle'. Going through my little note pad, as at todays date, it has produced 41.39kg of food! It is interesting to see what has waxed or waned during that time. Zucchinis are still going strong, despite several bouts of powdery mildew. I have ripped out two of the three plants, and now just have one big plant. Strawberries stopped producing and came back again. Capsicums are still going berzerk. Tomatoes have dropped right off as they are nearly at the end of their season. Spinach and basil are still going strong. Lettuce went to seed, germinated and now producing again. Oranges, lemons and olives are starting to change colour and ripening. Honeydews have died off but there is still one hiding behind the tomato bushes. Eggplant is now getting big seeing that the tomato bushes are thinning out and has plenty of flowers and little eggplants on it. I have noticed that the price of Zucchinis in the shops has gone up to $5.99/kg. I picked one earlier this week that was 630g...so that would have cost me about $3.77 to buy at the shop. That one zucchini has recouped the cost of buying the zucchini seedlings all those months ago. If you have one square metre of garden available, go ahead and plant a vegie patch. If I took the average price of the fruits and vegetables to be valued at $4.99/kg in the shops, my garden has saved me $206 in four months! Fantastic value, as I am sure I have recouped the cost of my garden, so anything after this is a real saving!