Growing your own vegetables

Amid all the doom and gloom over coronavirus , the last few days have been warm and gloriously sunny, so Vanda and I have been out in the garden and thoroughly enjoying it. We are still eating leeks, onions, garlic and purple sprouting from the garden. These of course will soon be coming to an end

We have tidied up, painted the fences and sieved last years compost. All my new potatoes are now planted in bags and containers and we have also planted spinach beet and early lettuce.

Today we are sorting out seeds and planning where to put everything. This year we are going to grow tomatoes, sweet corn, carrots, cauliflowers, french and runner beans and really as much as we can possibly squeeze in.

You can see some of the new potatoes, and I’m sure some of you are wondering why we have an old bath near the fence. Well, this year I am extending my use of containers. Last year a couple of fairly small pots produced an amazing supply of runner beans, so this year, none of them are going in the deep beds. All of them will be in containers trained up against fences and poles. We thought the bath would be ideal, especially as we would be charged to have it taken away.

This terrible disease is not going away, and it seems to me that growing your own is a no brainer. Even if you have no garden, it is amazing what you can grow in pots and bags on a window ledge.

As well as the vegetables you can eat, the garden is a wonderful place to enjoy the open air and of course you are still able to isolate yourself there.