Hi all
Yes, it has been a while – my apologies. We will remedy that this year.
Are we there yet? Is school back yet? Have you had enough of the school holidays? Are you counting down the days to Wednesday/Thursday this week? Looking for something to do in the last few days? Maybe we can help…
Like a lot of people our budget has been a little tight recently(especially after Christmas), so we have had to cut back on some things. When I was a kid growing up, we had a great veggie patch at home (even though the pool was sacrificed to make way for it!! lol)
Where we live now, we don’t have the room to create a veggie patch, but we have room for some pots. We had some pots left over from some plants that didn’t survive the new climate after we moved from Victoria 2 years ago, so we recycled them. We have bought a lot of seedlings – tomatoes, lettuces, strawberries, sage, celery, rosemary, chives and roly poly carrots. These are round carrots and don’t need as much depth as normal carrots – perfect for pots.
Our daughter helped us with the planting and working out what would go where. She has been helping with the watering and for those on restrictions, use the water from your shower while you wait for it to warm up. Place a bucket in the bottom of your shower and just let it run into the bucket and then pull the bucket out before you start using your soaps etc – perfect!!
With purchasing potting mix and stakes, we have spent around $60 all up.
There is nothing like the satisfaction that comes from eating your home grown veggies and of course you are saving as well. My mouth is already watering in anticipation of those tomatoes!!
Then you can get the kids involved in working out what you are going to cook/prepare from these home grown wonders – you might even find that your kids will be happy to eat more veggies. It’s amazing the difference that participation in the process makes to fussy eaters. Hopefully that gives you something to do in these last few days – you could make it your Australia Day activity…apart from the barbie of course!!
