I orig­i­nally called this post “How green is my gar­den?” but then I realised I’d already writ­ten a post last year with a sim­i­lar name.

I began the veg­etable gar­den project two weeks ago by spend­ing an after­noon dig­ging up a large part of the back gar­den and mulching through bags and bags of manure and blood and bone.

Fast for­ward to today and the whole mess seems to have set­tled in quite nicely. Although for some rea­son the top layer seems to con­tain a large amount of small rocks. The rake soon took care of that.

The seeds are now in. I’m grow­ing egg­plant, water­melon, cucum­ber and car­rots. I’m mak­ing a few notes on grow­ing times here and in my cal­en­dar so I’ll be able to track whether the the plants are thriv­ing or not.

Egg­plant

Ger­mi­na­tion: 10 – 14 days
Maturity:14 – 16 weeks

Cucum­ber

Ger­mi­na­tion: 6 – 10 days
Maturity:8 – 10 weeks

Water­melon

Germination:6 – 10 days
Maturity:14 – 16 weeks

Car­rot

Germination:10 – 21 days
Maturity:10 – 12 weeks

A mat­u­ra­tion age of about 14 weeks takes me all the way to Decem­ber 28. If all goes to plan we should be hav­ing a very deli­cious new years indeed.

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