It's inevitable. Yes, even a rite of passage that I should have a Kitchen Garden since I derive immense pleasure from shopping for ingredients, experimenting them based on my own imagination and hoping that it tastes as good as I have imagined / remembered it to be.
It can be as elaborate as a farm or as simple as a few deep pots perched on one's balcony or windowsill. Let your lifestyle, space and needs determine what it should be.
Like most Aussies, I am very bless to have a block of land which my house sits on. It gets ample sunshine and a few years ago, we (husband and I) put in a rainwater tank (thanks to an initiative by our local council) to water the plants in the frontyard.
This year, we decided to start our own Kitchen Garden. For starters, we needed to locate a suitable site which gets ample sunshine and close to a water source - in this case, the rainwater tank is ideal!
Then we had to decide whether to have a Kitchen Garden in the ground or above the ground. To be honest, this was an easy decision for us because we have clay soil and those of you with the same will understand how tough it is to dig! Therefore, above ground it is for us and decided on practical and cheap besser blocks as the framework. After the framework was completed, we rang the local landscape suppliers to deliver top quality gardening soil and mulch.
After all the soil had been added to the framework, the fun part of planting begins. How does one determine which vegetables to grow? If in doubt, look in the crisper compartment of your fridge!
We started with a selection of salad vegetables, cherry tomatoes, long beans, snow peas, basil, thyme, rosemary, chives and oregano.
Three Lessons We Have Learnt:
Choose a site that has ample sunshine, close to water source and is convenient for you so that will ensure that you visit your Kitchen Garden everyday (which we have done!).
Always warm up your body and joints before you start shoveling dirt into your wheelbarrow. Never fill your wheelbarrow to the brim because it gets very heavy!
It is essential that you work on your Kitchen Garden either early in the morning or early in the evening when it is cooler or else you will get a headache!
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Congrats on a new blog!
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