Comments on: The Vegie Patch

By: shambolicliving

shambolicliving — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:35:19 +0000

In reply to df. No I don't want to get calluses from all that typing!

By: df

df — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:39:25 +0000

Having grown anything at all you’re a good deal ahead of many folks; well done for getting started and it’ll be easy to do more as you go on! Just be careful you don’t overtax yourself with the blogging aspect! Just kidding. Those homegrown salads are truly the best – savour them.

By: shambolicliving

shambolicliving — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:06:16 +0000

In reply to Noreen. All the fruit and vegies from the garden tasted great. Good luck with yours next year. There are wild deer around here too (long story they were released from a deer farm) and they ate Mr Shambles first attempts at a garden before we even moved in.

By: shambolicliving

shambolicliving — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:04:24 +0000

In reply to Heather B. Yep I don't think any of us are putting the supermarkets/greengrocers out of business just yet.

By: shambolicliving

shambolicliving — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:03:46 +0000

In reply to ChrystinaNoel.

Let’s hope we’ve got more to harvest next year! I love the image of your family sitting around eating endless zucchini’s – go your mother for her versatility with recipes.

By: shambolicliving

shambolicliving — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:02:19 +0000

In reply to Diana Douglas. There were many trips to Bunnings for all the assorted trimmings I reckon you might be right cost-wise - pleased to say they tasted good though.

By: Heather B

Heather B — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:50:32 +0000

Lovely! We’re going to be trying a veggie patch this summer too. I hope we’ll get a few salads as well. Oh, and I would definitely be in trouble if we had to be self-sufficient…

By: Diana Douglas

Diana Douglas — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:20:40 +0000

My husband grows tomatoes every year and we manage to get a few before the heat (we live in Az)gets to be too much for them. Despite the limited production he goes all out and buys plants, fertizer, mulch and whatever else he thinks is needed. I’ve accused him of growing $47 tomatoes (a piece) He makes up for it with the crop of oranges, grapefruit and lemons we get Jan–April.

By: ChrystinaNoel

ChrystinaNoel — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:27:51 +0000

My father once planted something like… a dozen+ zucchini plants.. we ate zucchini at LEAST 4 times a week that summer. I had no idea how many ways you could eat zucchini – you could stuff it with sausage, you could put it on pasta, you could make zucchini parmesean, you can fry up the flowers and eat them for breakfast, you can make quiche… etc, etc, etc.

Your garden looks like fun, maybe next year your crop will go up since you figured it all out this year!

Also, strawberries and pink champagne sound delicious.

By: shambolicliving

shambolicliving — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:59:30 +0000

In reply to Noreen. Yep I was heavily involved - I blogged about it.