Planning Our Homestead Vegetable Garden

This week we have bough ALLL the seeds and have put together a plan for building raised garden beds. We start preparing the field so it is ready for planting 🙂

So we’ve been to the shop today and in here we got just a few bags of seeds just a few got a little bit over excited oh think we open a shop so one in the B there much we got we’ve already got these we also saved some seeds butter not squash F

Tomato and these are some other ones that we had left over from our little veggie clet home which wasn’t very big so we’ve got all these and then all these so we just need to make a plan about what to do them all get them planted it’s quite exciting it’s quite

Exciting hi everyone hello we hope you’ve all had a good week we went a little bit overboard on the seed buying didn’t we we did one two three four five six seven8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1 2 3 4 5 six s 3 32 337 389

41 41 I was right you were well you said 42 I said 42 you said 37 like it was hold 41 packets of take from the shop all the seeds shall I keep clanking keep clanking so just remember 41 42 43 44 45 45 + 41 is 86 packets of

Seeds uh we have what 86 packets of seeds in total life which we understand probably isn’t the smartest way to do it for first time large scale gardeners yeah but better having them than not having them yeah I think this year is going to be trial and error when it

Comes to the Garden we need to see what works what doesn’t work what requires a little bit more work and and sa all I I know technically people say grow a few easy crops and start from there but we’re just going to go everything we’ll be PR very wrong cuz we

Know everything won’t work but it’s part of the fun it’s just for us it’s something that we’re really excited about doing yeah it’s worth giving a go rather than say we’ll wait till next year yeah why not yeah so this is a very special book over

The past couple of weeks it’s kind of actually been an ongoing project since we moved here we’ve been doing quite a lot of research into gardening different techniques to use and different ways to do things so in the book I’ve divided it into Autumn winter spring and summer the

Four tabs and under each area I’ve written things we want to think about doing under each season we really are living by the seasons here and we feel the changeing the season so much more and so this is kind of like a a guide book that we can

Refer back to but we’ve learned a lot and we’ve come up with a bit of a plan so on the first s page of the book I’ve listed all the vegetable herb and flour seeds that we do have um also the trees there quite a big list

Of each and of highlighted the ones that are perennial out of them and from that come up with a plan of what plants we will put together what companion planting what things work well together what we’ll need support frames um some we’re going to do some a Fram some

TPS and um some things we’ll need staked as well we’ve also put which which items we’re going to put into our food for us and then we’re going to have a separate herb garden as well and really what we’re trying to do is put the right types of plants together and we’ll see

What works this is uh this is work what’s worked for other people but we’ll see what works for us um few little examples of what we plan to do sort of layout of of the what the garden beds would be so for example one bed will have corn Munch to and

Melon um in another one we might have tomatoes parsley and turnup greens so in each bed there’s going to be more than one thing and we it will be new day GRE garden beds garden beds we plan for them to be about 2 and a half to 3 m long by

It was about .6 M well that’s written down .6 M wide and about half a meter tall as well and we’ll have a path up the middle and in the R so we can get in around each garden bed and then we have also planned out

What way to set the garden beds up so this is a little diagram that I’ve drawn my art isn’t fantastic on this occasion but at least we know what we’re talking about so we know what we’re going to put where and when over the next few weeks or month

I’m just planning on concentrating on our kitchen which which we’ve got a good bit done so far I’m very happy with how it’s turning out um but there’s still a lot to do surrendering L painting get the floor done which will be very exciting and then it will be onto our kitchen which

Will make our whole house feel a lot different with a fully working kitchen in the center of it well is the skilled Carpenter of the two of us so we think it makes sense for him to work away on the kitchen and so he’ll be focusing a little bit more in

The kitchen over the next couple of weeks two months maybe a little bit longer and I’ll be focusing on the Garden hi everyone on this wet and windy day today I am doing a little bit of work in preparing our the area for our veggie garden and I’m going to show you what I’ve been up to it feels now that all our plans are coming together so we have our compost bin

Here in close proximity to the vegetable garden we have the pond here as you can can see it’s running quite heavily at the moment so it comes across this little bit this is the road and here there is a slope down to the vegetable garden so the windows from the living

Floor of the house look down towards the vegetable garden it’s kind of nestled in the valley of the land so we have the house this side and snake rock this side as you can see along here we are lucky to have these big Granite posts they really are

Beasts and we also have these metal supports which went from this Terrace and joined on to the top of the Granite post and the there was four of them four sets of that along this area wires would then have run from each metal support from one metal support to

The next and your Vining fruit plants your your grit Vines would have been planted on this upward teris here can actually see some here we’ll go we’ll go have a look and then would have been supported by the metal supports and the wires held in place by these big

Posts we plan to reuse all of this and to save some of the old grit findes if at all possible this is one of the old Vines another of the old Vines and another here and another just up there I’ve already filled two buckets full of wire I’m going to pick up some

Water no Hey B come f you got cook them Lun here to Make some pinea first were giv pineapple pancakes and ballet wasn’t it it was ballet were amazing very nice they’re looking Good Oh good flipping excited for this some already P it up Yummy big Stacks pck Stacks we have had a lot of rain this week this Channel That’s flowing from the pond has turned into more of a stream it’s widened these SS have really filled up for the first time you can see in the distance the water pouring over the Terrace above making a

Waterfall and the level here in the pond has really increased as well even this channel here which diverts the water over the cliff it’s just filled to the top flooding the field a little bit I mean we have had a lot of rain this is sort of the end of this Terrace

Where we’re going to have the garden beds there’s a proper waterfall going on here current plan of action is to scrap some of the grass along away from the wall that runs right along here and to uncover some of the bits of granite and things that are underneath and just covered by the Grass More Rubbish You can see the share my defer bite but interestingly as I’ve cleared back just along this little bit what I find is water running right along the wall you can see it coming through gaps in the stones which makes sense cuz that’s exactly what’s happening on the other Terraces

Feel like being attacked by these Bugs Next I want to try to move some of these G posts which is just have fallen obviously at some stage I say try to move cuz I’m not sure how easy that’s going to be CU they are heavy man but we’ll give it a go if not

Will and I will have a go at a later stage together I’m off the hill and hopefully will and I can get it moved into place it another time we plan to use these concrete beams for some of the sides of our garden beds for the

Other ones we’ll be using old pieces of pin and corrugated metal which were part of the animal houses that we’ve taken apart this kindy to use the what we have available already here on the Property W you have to wonder how long this is this has been here for more bit of that little stuff around it yeah more metal just what I need starting to look pretty good alongside this wall I think another Granite post here along the way I’ll find this other pipe which runs under the

Ground across the Terrace above as you can see there’s some water here which seems to be seeping in from beneath the Rocks the same as the other side so the water that’s coming down through the middle of this field is temporary it’s because the what it’s

Coming from the water mine in the pond which we are channeling through this way while we M the pond but once the pond is mended this water won’t be coming through this way and what I’m thinking is because the water run off because we’ve had too much rain seems to be

Coming through the rocks and the wall behind from The Terraces above rather than just having it seep through and run down over the field what we could maybe do is have some mini SS from in the area that I’ve been digging a bit at today I’ve just been

Clearing them back but if we were to dig some little SS like a little s around this side it’s ink keeping with the Contour of the land and it would also help hold some of the rain water in place Place rather than it just running over the field just a thought obviously

I’m not going to start now but just po as I mentioned the other day we want to use these concrete pillars for supporting Vines so if if we dog a s straight down from the wall it means on the BM of the SEL we could plant the The

Vines I have so many little jobs to be do not here so many which I’m just going to be cracking on with over the next couple of weeks they’re not the most interesting to watch there’s only so much pulling of rambles you can watch somebody do or digging in the grind want

Somebody do but I’ll keep you updated how it’s going hopefully we’ll get the this fi ready soon to build their garden beds