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Verandah Garden

Bede and I started our verandah garden over 12 months ago with just 3 small pots and now I have LOTS more. Some are fully established plants, some juveniles and a couple of seedlings running about :P We live in a smallish rental unit so not a lot of space and can't use any of the shared areas so we sacrifice some of our verandah for garden. Just wanted to share some pictures of the garden and the harvest (however small it is).

This is probably tomato (they all got mixed up) when it was a baby...


A chilli, something, and basil...


My gardens development...


...from plastic plates for bases to actual bases...


 I always lines up the seedlings with their corresponding big plant for some reason...


 The chillies top left got sick with aphids so they had to look silly for a while with a foil skirt among other treatments (How to Prevent/Get Rid of Aphids). And We also added some strawberries which are 2-3 times the size and flowing right now!!


And we have upgraded from egg cartons to a marginally more sophisticated seeding tray system (don't forget labels so the babies don't get mixed up!)...



Some of the fruits of our labour...the bottom chilli makes me think of the Simpson episode about chillies


 
 TRIUMPH! A butterfly in the garden! He was pretending to be a leaf...


And I don't leave the potting mix bag in a dark, humid closet any more because scary things like this grow....


Will provide some updated pictures soonish! Happy gardening!
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