The Vegetable Patch

Although it was a terribly rainy cold Autumn day today, I still thought it necessary to get the thinking caps on for our vegetable patch. It has been 1 week since all the Agapanthus have been relocated, and they are doing very well in their new homes, however the natives are getting anxious as to what is going on in the empty garden bed. After being inspired by Marta Stewart, I had morning tea with the residents in our Special Care Unit, as it is the raised garden bed in their courtyard. "What herbs and vegetables would you like to plant?" Well the suggestions came thick and fast...chives, different types of lettuce, cucumber, beetroot, tomato, onion, garlic, lemongrass, chillies, carrots, parsnips. This of course then led to the very lengthy conversation around when it is the right time to plant certain vegetables/herbs. Luckily I had just picked up the complete Collection of Gardening from Vinnies last week, so we have a reference for such curly questions. We did decide that we should plant herbs in the 12 pots that we had, so that we can move them around if they need more sun. So the next sunny day we will start sowing seeds. I was however reminded by Bessie that now that they are getting a little old they might need me to remind them to water the plants, as they don't have they aren't so good at gardening anymore!.....Consider it done. We also have some flowering plant seeds and bulbs to think about. This is going to be fun.