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RAISING Veggies Everyone has motivations that cause an action to be taken. In my case, this year my Dad died. He grew vegetables, so now I must grow vegetables. It’s like carrying on a legacy. What came out of that was a desire of my own to see what I could do, a joy in seeing things come to fruition and then the pleasure in the eating. 16
Lettuce, Beetroot, Radish, Spring Onion, Zucchini,Spinach, Silver beet, Carrots Raised gardens are a great option for those with limited mobility. My brother built mine for me. He then filled it with mushroom compost, topped off with a veggie mix that has all the good nutrients that plants need. I covered the soil with weed mat. (Cats like bare dirt.) I then cut the weed mat to open rows for the plants. I planted a combination of seedlings and seeds. Radishes are the best. They grow so quickly. If instant gratification is your thing, then radishes are the plant for you. Because this is my first raised garden, and is limited space, I decided on an intensive farming approach. With very little regard for how big plants get, I planted and hoped for the best. My gardening knowledge is restricted to what I gleaned off my parents as I grew up. I grew up on a farm and Dads vegetable garden was huge, some years encroaching onto the paddock next to the house. We had a lot of corn those years. In the city its different. But still possible. The plants are a bit over crowded but they seem to be coping. These two pages show you just one corner of the garden. I also have tomatoes in big pots, strawberries in bags hanging off the fence and a patio with potted herbs, nasturtiums, succulents and petunias. I may have gone a bit overboard in the first year, but it feels great! I bought some snail bait because a snail ate a sizable portion of one my petunias. I have aphids on some plants and I use an organic spray on them. My carers help me water them and I am planning an irrigation system. Other than that my intervention has been minimal. Nature has taken its course and now I am provided with a sense of belonging in a place, another reason to get out in the sun and salad for tea. Trudy Mulligan 17
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