Show Us Your Vege Garden

Tinkerbell · *by **Tinkerbell** on Tue 29/Mar/11 8:51pm*

I recently become obsessed with growing my own food (in a natural disaster your local shops might fall down!) and have converted most of our tiny back yard to vege gardens. I'm also blogging about it on the Yates website (for those interested in such things). http://www.yates.co.nz/vegie-challenge/ ... tinkerbell

Anyway here are some of my gardens

wachtourak · *by **wachtourak** on Tue 29/Mar/11 9:10pm*

I hope there are chillis

kona.stinky. · *by **kona.stinky.** on Tue 29/Mar/11 9:11pm*

Mmmmmmmmm gonna get me some fine chilay.

Tinkerbell · *by **Tinkerbell** on Tue 29/Mar/11 9:26pm*

Oh yes, there are chillis

Spyder · *by **Spyder** on Tue 29/Mar/11 10:31pm*

Here's our little effort from earlier in the summer. Still trying to strike the right balance for qty's of lettuce, but nothing beats wandering out there to pick some fresh lettuce for your sammies! Have just planted some winter seeds. Onion, Carrot & something else :blush:

mitch7 · *by **mitch7** on Sat 9/Apr/11 8:50pm*

Here's the raised gardens i built some months(November I think) ago outta broken vineyard posts and 2nd hand fence palings ...i painted and lined with plastic sheet to stop/minimise chemical leeching etc, also helps stop earth slipping through the gaps.

its a bit of a shambles at the mo...needs a clean out...had a massive crop of tomatoes(still some on the plants),cucumbers,chillis,lettuces,carrots,strawberries(more fruit at the mo ?) basil and other herbs...

mitch7 · *by **mitch7** on Sat 9/Apr/11 8:53pm*

oh had heaps of Rocket too.....best thing for sammies and salads :alien:

the potatoes in the tyres didn't work for us...real poor crop and they died early...will try again next season.

jo · *by jo on Sat 9/Apr/11 8:53pm*

nicely done!

happybaboon · *by **happybaboon** on Sat 9/Apr/11 8:53pm*

Chainsaw carpentry FTW.

mitch7 · *by **mitch7** on Sat 9/Apr/11 9:15pm*

Cheers Jo and HB...
just some advice about paint,..i was gonna use Timbercryl($160+)
http://www.mitre10mega.co.nz/shop/paint ... er_360674/
...its a great fence paint and it lasts for yonks..but in the end bought some much much cheaper paint...
http://www.mitre10mega.co.nz/shop/paint ... ny_357217/

the v helpful lady at Mega was telling me how I'll have to paint it far more often...i said "look this cheap paint has got to last at least 2 years ?...at that price i can probably paint it 3-4 times for the price of 1 x timbacryl.

I x 10l of Wattyl did 2 coats on the entire raised garden (i painted inside the beds as well)...

cheers, happy gardening

happybaboon · *by **happybaboon** on Sat 9/Apr/11 9:25pm*

Hmmm if it's from a vineyard and old fences it'd probably be treated timber anyway. Might have survived OK on it's own for a decade or so....

mitch7 · *by **mitch7** on Sat 9/Apr/11 9:55pm*

happybaboon wrote:Hmmm if it's from a vineyard and old fences it'd probably be treated timber anyway. Might have survived OK on it's own for a decade or so....

it is all treated..i didn't fancy ingesting the crap they put into the timber...here in Marlborough down Rarangi way, near the coast, you can't drink water outta the wells...Council says its arsenic from vineyard posts...we have millions of them here.

Besides..i prefer black (ebony) edging...kinda less noticable once the plants get growing.