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Garden Updates – Covid Crazy

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Well there is nothing like a lock down, as we all now know, to re spark up the sleeping projects.

So whilst it has been over two years since the last veg patch blog update, I have continually shared news and inspiration from the garden on my instagram page, same name! Check it out.

The funny thing that happened over on instagram was a rediscovery of my photography passion and I’m now living my dream of being a travel photographer – albeit the travel is around my garden, trips to the foreshore and the other odd trip here and there.

Now, due to the Covid restrictions, my travel is pretty much just around the garden. This also means that the garden is getting a lot more attention and I even have time to water the veg patch every day, which makes a big difference to its wellbeing.

The big news is that over the last two years we have done a bit of a reno on the house and rejigged the garden. I am so happy to restart this blog to share some of the beauty and peacefulness of my garden, as well as the veg patch exploits. So happy to share it all, photographs included.

Thanks so much for reading this, don’t forget to give it a like, and I’ll try to keep writing something often xx

Scene from the garden

Sunny new garden!

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When we first built this veggie garden, the big question was – will it receive enough sun? The tested answer was no.
Whilst the patch received enough sun for some leafy greens and some butter beans to grow, it was not enough for them to thrive. It was certainly not enough sunshine per day for any of the flowering crops, such as tomatoes or zucchini, to produce any fruit.

A couple of months ago we had the Leopard tree taken out. In the four years since creating the veggie garden, the canopy of that tree had almost doubled in size, completely blocking any sunshine from reaching the garden.

Now the garden receives full sun for most of the day. Hip hooray! And the field of silverbeet is luscious.

I’m sure there will be some issues around too much westerly sun in the middle of summer, etc. For now, though:

sun + water = delicious home grown food.


We eat at least 4 ‘bunches’ of silverbeet each week. So our self regenerating field of the stuff is a good investment in family health and for the family budget.