My First Veg
This year I went on a mission to sort out the back of our garden. The last owners had a bit of a veggie patch going but they took the railway sleepers away with them and I let the area get overgrown. So this year, with some encouragement from Tammy, I got digging and sieving and created a bed with some really nice soil.
It’s been planted up with cauliflower, kale, broccoli and broad beans. Our next door neighbour gave use a couple of runner bean plants, which I’ve planted but I need to sort out poles. They’re currently held up by rocket sticks that landed in our garden after our neighbours the other way had fireworks.
So far the chicken wire has kept the rabbits out (and the cows, the deer, squirrels, foxes, hedgehogs rats, mice, badgers, moorhens and most of the other wildlife that scuffles through our garden) but I must own up to using slug pellets. Those slimy suckers can eat a lot of leaf in one night.
Anyway, as the photo shows, it’s all growing pretty well. I just need to get the second bed sorted so I can give some of these plants some breathing space.
Listen to me? I’m 33 and sound like I’m 73. I used to be an expedition leader, dammit!
- Sean
