Veggie patch 2009

The summer crop of veggies is coming along quite nicely this year, helped along by some great Melbourne rains in the past few weeks.

First up there's the tomato plants - organic varieties bought from CERES. There's one normal sized tomato and a cherry, but they've sorta melded together to become one giant plant. Sweet.

Next is a variety of different tomato plants, grown from seed. There are College Challenger, Yellow Stuffing, Prosperity and something else I can't remember.

Next up is a lone lettuce, which seeded itself from last year's crop without any assistance.

Then there are a whole bunch of capsicum plants. I've never grown capsicum, and I suspect they're going to turn out small, shrivelled and eaten by birds. Awesome.

Here is the bergamot plant - it's survived past everything else in the garden, probably because I don't know what to use it for. Smells good though.

The purple sage plant, which was slowly dying in a little pot until I plonked it in here. Seems to be going well. Buggered if I know what you use sage for.

Snow peas! These little bastards rock. Especially when they climb all over the awesome little teepees I made for them.

Likewise with the home-made teepees, but these are climbing beans. Some bastard caterpillars ate them when they were young, but I showed them. Yeah - I carefully picked them off and put them elsewhere in the garden! That'll teach em. I'm tough.

Broccoli. Last time I grew broccoli I was too nervous about cutting them, then they suddenly flowered and the whole thing was inedible. Not doing that twice.

This is my mental parsley bush. It's huge, especially considering I grew it from sick tube stock. However, it's currently flowering so there is next to no leaves on it. Bloody annoying, but good throughout the rest of the year.

Nestled in the corner is some oregano and catmint. The oregano seems to have survived through the winter, and the catmint is just because I like the smell. When I had a cat, none of them cared about catmint. Now I have two dogs - irony.

And these are the seed punnets yet to get to planting stage. Still a few tomatoes, some cabbage, celery, the spinach is nearly ready for the garden bed, carrots and some more snow peas.

Also inhabiting the veggie patch are the lavender plants to attract bees to pollinate, the lemon tree and the tangelo tree. I still want to grow pumpkin, potato, olives, grapes, chickpeas and artichoke, but I might need a bit more room for them. Next time, gadget, next time.