Vegan Lifestyle: Veggie Garden

Its been a while since we posted! Been busy! Nice long weekend now so I?m posting a few pictures from last weekend. I think having a little veggie or herb garden is a pretty good thing to do environmentally! It lets you use the awesome compost generated by your Green Frog Bokashi bin! If you don?t know what these are, have a google! Very cool stuff and the plants LOVE it.

So here you can see some of our less successful tomatoes! These guys are Roma?s and one of them died, as did the basil in this pot. Very strange so we moved him away from the other tomatoes. He?s still produced these two nice Roma?s which we?ll shove into our Eggplant Moussaka tomorrow!

I mean look at these bad boys. They?re pretty cute! Emma loves the marigolds. They?re pretty cute I will admit, and they stop some types of root worms and the like in the soil. Companion planting is what its all about.

Some nicer tomatoes from our other bushes, these guys have been going crazy! One of them is fairly average sized tomatoes, almost like giant cherry tomatoes, but they taste fantastic. The other has those mega big ones, but he?s only had a few, they take ages to mature. The basil in these pots is going crazy too!

Another handy thing to have in the garden is some lettuce (i let the bugs eat it, keeps them away from other stuff), parsley and some cat nip, yet to dry it for the cat.. I don?t think it works on her!

And some lemon verbena and regular mint! Great for flavouring some chilled water in the fridge!

Can?t go wrong with chives and more basil either. This one is an organic basil, he took much longer to grow than the others but is fairly resistant to bugs these days!

     And finally, I chucked in some organic garlic bulbs and 2 weeks later ALL these guys had sprouted! 11 out of 12 sprouted! Great odds!

Even funnier is the butternut pumpkin seeds I just shoved in roughly.. a bit close but I?ll let nature decide who lives and who dies?

Lastly, I thought I?d share the awesome Rainwater Tank Emma won! If you read G magazine month you?d have seen her awesome water saving tip I think. for that we won this 1000l tank, just gotta get help from a handy friend to install it on Monday!