One advantage to having a bit of a yard (790 square metre block) is that I have room for a garden. While flowers are lovely to look at, we can't eat them. With the rising costs of living I have decided to rip out any plants I'm not keen on and replace them with fruit and vegies. My garden was starting to look like a jungle, as it hadn't had much attention from me since I gave birth two years ago. Now that Brendon is old enough to play happily outside, I have spent the last two weekends in the garden, ripping out the jungle, deciding what will stay and what will go. In my garden I have an orange tree, apple tree, plum tree, lemon tree and an olive tree. I also have lemon verbena, parsley, mint, rosemary, thyme and oregano. I have recently planted some lettuce, strawberries and basil. I plan to plant onions, potatoes, pumpkin, butternut pumpkin, broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, eggplant, capsicum, celery, carrots and rockmelon. These are all things that appear regularly on our shopping list. Another weekend of ripping stuff out, then I should be ready to start preparing the garden beds and planting.
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