Revitalised Kitchen Garden

Last week we went to an organic kitchen garden workshop at our local library. We really enjoyed it and came home motivated to begin again with our overgrown kitchen garden.

So yesterday we went off to Bunnings and stocked up on potting mix, cow manure, herbs and veges and we also bought a couple of new pots. We cleared out the garden ready to start again, poured in the garden mix and the compost we have been making for the last few months and then added some worm castings as well. In the middle we constructed a sunken worm house made from recycled house bricks. The holes in the bricks will allow the worms to go back and forth from their house into the soil. The worms came from our worm farm along with a lot of castings and worm eggs which will ensure the worms go back to home base when they have finished foraging in the soil. We put some organic sugar cane mulch on the top and the lid is a recycled tile. 

Then we planted lettuce, Chinese greens, Greek basil, cherry tomatoes, spinach, oregano and Italian parsley. We mulched it all with sugar cane mulch and watered it in with diluted worm castings. In our 2 extra pots we have watercress, garlic chives and  lemonbalm, camomile and peppermint for home made teas. We still have nasturtiums and strawberries to plant so we are off today to find some big colourful plastic storage tubs for these. We will put holes in these for drainage and the handles will make it easy to move them around. 

This was so much fun and it will be exciting when we start picking our own food and making herb teas. Alan was able to use his birthday Bunnings vouchers for a lot of this so thanks to Louise and Jeff :)