AllyCatHome Grown Vegetables
May 29th 2008 23:17
In my attempt to eat healthier, I thought I’d rediscover the joys and woes of planting my own vegetables again. The best way to get healthy delicious veggies in your dishes is to grow them yourself. If you’re going to be eating for your health, you’d want to make sure the food you put into your mouth is at its freshest and with the least amount of chemicals and pesticides as possible. I do think it’s important for anybody trying to use food to heal themselves, not just rosacea, but any disease that the food is grown as organically as possible. The costs of organic vegetables in the stores are ridiculously expensive and even if you do spend the money on them, there is no guarantee how long they have been sitting on the shelf. Home grown is the best but something I’m not too good at unfortunately. Believe me, I have tried on many occasions but none of my veggies ever make it. The only successes I have had are with the Aloe Vera plant and chilli plants, which seem to produce chillies ALL year round. Unfortunately though, I don’t eat chillies.
Never one to give up though, I am once again, ready to give it another shot. It the end of May now in Western Australia, and because I have had many failed attempts before in the garden, I’ve decided to try container gardening. Surely I would have better success in pots right?? At least I know if they start to look a bit sickly, I can always pop them in the car and drive them to mums house, who has been dubbed “the plant doctor”. So that’s good to know.
I hear that during this month these are the ideal veggies to plant in the garden broad beans, celery, lettuce, parsnip, peas and spinach broccoli, cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, kohl rabi, lettuce, radish, silver beet, spring onion and turnip. I went off to the local nursery and came back with these four little vegetable seedlings: Dwarf Beans, Red Mignonette Lettuce, Snow Peas and Spinach. I asked the nursery lady for some suggestions on how to keep these alive and received some valuable suggestions.
1. Lettuce, dwarf beans and spinach can be planted in hanging baskets to keep all the nasty critters from eating them themselves .That to me is the number one reason for keeping them high off the ground as I have lost many previous vegetables that way. Dwarf beans will also look very pretty with their cascading vines and pods overhanging the basket (never knew that was possible – Great Idea, but have to keep an eye on the moisture level)
2. Plant the beans and snow peas in 10-12 inch pots and use chicken wire stapled to a couple of posts for them to climb up. My vegetable patch does not get at least 6 hours of sun per day so they need to go into pots. Probably just as well too because the soil recommendations for each vegetable gets confusing when planting in the ground.
I am going to try these suggestions and hopefully report back next week along with some new photos of how my little guys are coming along.
Never one to give up though, I am once again, ready to give it another shot. It the end of May now in Western Australia, and because I have had many failed attempts before in the garden, I’ve decided to try container gardening. Surely I would have better success in pots right?? At least I know if they start to look a bit sickly, I can always pop them in the car and drive them to mums house, who has been dubbed “the plant doctor”. So that’s good to know.
I hear that during this month these are the ideal veggies to plant in the garden broad beans, celery, lettuce, parsnip, peas and spinach broccoli, cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, kohl rabi, lettuce, radish, silver beet, spring onion and turnip. I went off to the local nursery and came back with these four little vegetable seedlings: Dwarf Beans, Red Mignonette Lettuce, Snow Peas and Spinach. I asked the nursery lady for some suggestions on how to keep these alive and received some valuable suggestions.
Dwarf Beans, Spinach, Lettuce and Snow Peas ready for planting
1. Lettuce, dwarf beans and spinach can be planted in hanging baskets to keep all the nasty critters from eating them themselves .That to me is the number one reason for keeping them high off the ground as I have lost many previous vegetables that way. Dwarf beans will also look very pretty with their cascading vines and pods overhanging the basket (never knew that was possible – Great Idea, but have to keep an eye on the moisture level)
2. Plant the beans and snow peas in 10-12 inch pots and use chicken wire stapled to a couple of posts for them to climb up. My vegetable patch does not get at least 6 hours of sun per day so they need to go into pots. Probably just as well too because the soil recommendations for each vegetable gets confusing when planting in the ground.
I am going to try these suggestions and hopefully report back next week along with some new photos of how my little guys are coming along.
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