A year in the new garden extension

When the email I was waiting for finally arrived...'Welcome - you are the first to have a box in the new area of the garden' I was so excited.  

Friends donated compost and the soil loved it.  Within a few months all the seeds in the compost were sprouting and as a novice garden, I had no idea if they were cucumbers, zucchini's or pumpkin.  They turned out to be pumpkin!

My first plantings August 2015

6/9/15

What a bounty

Soon more boxes were taken up. The transformation has been nothing short of amazing. 

 

                                                                           

Raspberries, strawberries  and blueberries - roll on summer

The new orchard

Blue drums arrived..........................

         

And Beans, beans and more beans grew

An excess of carrots transplanted into a barren garden bed flourished. Now the nectarine tree has blossomed. 

     

Spring has arrived ........

North towards the pond

South facing

And a new challenge for me this spring.....

     

Before.......................................................and after

The Green Centre, Extension Update and Mural

It's been ages since our last post, and things with the new extension have moved on at a rapid rate, with our new vege boxes we now have 26 members! The mural is nearly complete, and Sally has acquired bright blue drums as planters that match it perfectly. More photos of the new extension to come, but once again thank-you to the fabulous people at The Green Centre for another donation of vege potting soil for our new garden beds.