Garden Share Collective: Slowly Slowly

Here we are at November already, and it's time for the next instalment of the Garden Share Collective hosted by Lizzie of Strayed from the Table. If you haven't been over to take a look at the collective and check out some of the other gardens, it's well worth doing. I've come to realise there is a wealth of knowledge amongst these keen gardeners and I'm always open to picking up some tips and tricks from these fellow bloggers.

Anyway, my vegie garden for this month. Well it's slowly coming together. We moved back into our old house about 5 weeks ago now and I thought it would be a much faster process to re-establish our vegie garden. I guess having a baby makes progress a bit slower! Still, it is happening, and that's the main thing.

So far I've cleared out weeds from about a third of the garden area, and planted out seedlings of zucchini [which got attacked by snails], beetroot and lettuce. I've had the age old problem again of chickens digging up the garden, but with only two girls here and one now on the lay, I've got some breathing space there while we work out once again how to keep them out.

I've also been creating a herb garden in another section of our garden. Currently it is completely overgrown, but beneath the towering weeds and roses [not ones nice enough to keep there], succulents and lilies, are little garden paths and lots of good rocks to work with. Currently planted is my rosemary, some mint from my mum's place and chamomile [looking forward to homegrown chamomile tea!]. 

So I've got a few more busy weeks of clearing and planting ahead of me. We took a trip to Bunnings yesterday to find some indoor plants and came home hours later with lots of little goodies. Is it just me or is going into Bunnings a bit like going into a time warp? You go in, then hours later you emerge, blinking, and wondering how it became 6.30pm already. Maybe it's just me.

My dreams of heirloom seeds are going to have to wait until next season/next year unfortunately. I'm just getting my hands on whatever seedlings I can that I think will grow well. I've not got any potatoes in and I probably won't this year, which is a bit disappointing. Next year. I'm still holding out hope of getting some beans that I can harvest and dry for use over the winter months. 

Oh and harvesting right now - well, we took all that we could from the silverbeet tree [it was most definitely a tree] before I took the bold move of pulling it out. It still hasn't moved any further than where it was unceremoniously dumped on the lawn. And now we're harvesting nothing really, save for some rosemary. Slowly slowly, this is how my garden grows!

Don't forget to head over to the Garden Share Collective page and take a look at some other gardens, there are plenty from all around the world sharing their happenings now. Until next month...