I’ve spent the last couple of days tidying up in some of the older beds. It’s easy to keep the new beds looking great as they’re new but the older ones have plenty of weeds, are set up a little strangely and dont have the ‘new factor’ to them! The back beds are pretty well shaded from the neighbours trees so I’ve kept them full of cooler weather vege, brassicas, bright light beets, broad beans, fennel and lettuces but the veggies are being encroached on by creeping weeds so I’ve had to bite the bullet and get down on hands and knees.
Things look much better and I’ve even managed to squeeze in some more sweetcorn in the front of this picture where the bare earth is. The broccolli and cauliflowers to the left are just about ready to some out so another sowing of corn will go there to give me three sowings in the same block bed. The teepee has snowpeas growing well and you can see past that to the next bed with my leeks and onions. In the top right are my potato beds with the Maori purple potatoes against the fence on the right.
I like to grow flowers in my veggie garden where I can and just coming out of winter I have yellow and purple violas edging my old beds. They look lovely and add a pretty touch to salads and ice cubes. I’m collecting their seeds as the seed pods open so that I can resow them next year.
It took a bit of doing but its such a relief to get rid of the weeds and see what spare space I have for edibles.
