The leek and rocket seedlings I’ve been growing diligently in my studio have finally graduated to the garden bed today! And Frankie simply couldn’t resist jumping into the garden bed and sniffing everything out before they entered the ground. I thought I’d shoot everything at his level today and give you “Frankie’s Eye-View” of the vegetable garden!

As usual, he was able to sniff out the weeds, but he did accidentally pull on a basil seedling when tugging at a weed. He’s too cute, so I think I can forgive him.

 

 

Before any fresh baby seedlings could go in, ‘ghosts of climbing vegetables past’ had to be removed. A process that dear Frankie was more than happy to watch from paver-level below 🤓

 

 

Instead, this little bear chose to try and get to the beautiful Sage (left) instead, but only got as far as the Lemon Verbena!

 

Time for Thyme! – In fact our second variety of Thyme, we already have some Lemon Thyme (my absolute fave herb) and now some Garden Thyme

 

 

And we also had some fab Pak Choi seedlings from Bunnings to put in. If you want a great crop for greens, this is your winner. I cannot tell you how many harvests we had last year, safe to say there were a lot of broths and stir-fries last winter and I think we’ll be doing the same this winter too! (Side note: The straw is Mum’s secret weapon, for some reason, it acts as a great fortifier for the seedings, I think it gives them a bit of weather protection too.)

 

A quick check on the Dutch Carrots… last year I planted them way too close together that they simply grew into each other like some siamese carrot trio! Definitely spaced them out more this year!

 

And we’ve planted a new type of lettuce in the garden this year! This year it’s like a lettuce Pak Choi hybrid, I’m going to have to check the tags again because I think I’ve got written here ‘Marionette Lettuce’, but that’s a type of puppet show, so I think I’ve read something wrong on the packet at some stage!

 

 

The Leeks and the Pak Choi getting the straw treatment! It actually really helps with the leeks (and the spring onions we’ve planted earlier in the season), because it differentiates the seedling from a shard of grass.
There is nothing worse than making that mistake and pulling out seedling you’ve nurtured from seed!

 

A last sprinkle of water and Seasol mix and the new residents in the vegetable garden are now well on their way!

 

Not without the ‘boss’ standing guard, keeping watch of course. Pretty cute manager of quality control, don’t you think!

 

Much Love