Like most gardeners, I'm sure, I am never quite happy with the way things are. I am always moving plants to better spots, building something, making improvements, extending this or designing that. Change is good.
Winter is a wonderful time to be making something better or new, as the weather is cool enough to dig and delve without getting hot and bothered and the rest of the garden is asleep anyway.
My project this week has been the vege garden. It was recently enlarged with the addition of the recycled post and rail fence,
so that gave me the opportunity to both enlarge and improve.
The improvement was the structure holding up the boysenberry vine, previously 4 star posts with baggy wire inadequately supporting 3 bountiful berry plants. I asked Pa to install 2 heavy fence posts around which we wound 2 rows of plain wire, which sandwich the vines neatly in place without strings: a clever idea I saw in a gardening mag.
The enlargement was an extra bed for more veges: potatoes this year. It was meant to be a small vege plot initially, but producing one's own food is so addictive!
The winter veges are doing rather well. I am a fairly recent winter vegetable gardener and still get quite amazed that plants actually fruit in the cold.The little cabbages make excellent coleslaw for that winter favourite, baked potatoes with the lot.
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