Thursday, November 5, 2009

Spring time In the Organic Garden

I am one of the few people I know who held off planting too much outside at Labour Weekend. I bought a plastic greenhouse (very cheap from the Warehouse) during the winter and I have tomatoes, chilli and cucumber in there but out in the garden I am waiting a little until the obligatory November cold snap is over. I do have some potatoes in and I am trying something new this year. I saw something at http://www.nzgardener.co.nz/ about potato cages made with chicken wire and bamboo. Not having any chicken wire I improvised by recycling plastic bags with the bottom cut out and filling them with well rotted compost to mound up my spuds. Because I only have a small area for spuds and last year was not especially effective using the rubbish bin I thought I'd give this a try. The plants look very healthy so far but only time will tell if I get a good crop for Christmas.

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