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Potted Vegetables and Life Lessons

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Thursday, 26 July 2012

Potted Vegetables and Life Lessons


Life is busy. So busy it makes it hard to do the simple things. Twelve months ago we built our home on a large two acre block. We love to garden and we have grand plans for our space. But finding the time and the resources can be hard.

We plan to have large vegetable patches, but we have the small or rather large problem of rabbits. This means our vegetable patches will need to be enclosed. What should be simple is now challenging, time consuming and costly.

So in lieu of our grand vegetables patches, we bought a trailer load of soil, mounted our available pots out of the reach of hungry rabbits and got planting.

Over the next ten to twelve weeks we will harvest broccoli, cauliflower, leeks, red spring onions and mixed lettuce, all providing our rabbits don't learn to climb!


I love that my little boy looks on intently, watching his father do something so fundamental and good.

Through our garden we want to teach him the value of hard work and exercise, to appreciate and value food and to be adventurous and wise in his food choices. We want our garden to be a place he remembers fondly, a place of fun, adventure and learning. A place where we took the time to value him and our time together as a family.

I am thankful we have this opportunity and look forward to the memories we are going to make.

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posted by Bree @ Twinkle in the Eye @ 07:29   12 Comments

12 Comments:

At Thursday, 26 July, 2012 , Anonymous Kyrstie@ A Fresh Legacy said...

Good luck with your harvest! I love spending time in the garden with my boys, they love to help witht he planting and picking as well as deciding what we will make with what we have collected. With the weather slowing warming it is great to get out in the fresh air. I have planted lots of things in pots this year, in addition to my raised beds and they are all going really well.

 
At Thursday, 26 July, 2012 , Blogger carmen said...

Sounds like fun! Nothing like fresh produce from the garden! Now I just want the space to do our own! :D

 
At Thursday, 26 July, 2012 , Blogger Catherine Rodie Blagg (Cup of Tea and a Blog) said...

How wonderful! when your little boy is a bit bigger he can join in too - my G loves gardening (the planting and digging of a lone potato!) x

 
At Thursday, 26 July, 2012 , Blogger Bree @ Twinkle in the Eye said...

One potato or ten Catherine it all counts :-)

 
At Thursday, 26 July, 2012 , Blogger Bree @ Twinkle in the Eye said...

Can you use pots or no room for that either?

 
At Thursday, 26 July, 2012 , Blogger Bree @ Twinkle in the Eye said...

I hope we will have beds soon, in the mean time - pots will be fine. I'm looking forward to using them.

 
At Thursday, 26 July, 2012 , Blogger Yvette Bowyer said...

looks like it could be a great harvest!!

 
At Thursday, 26 July, 2012 , Blogger Rebecca Westphal said...

Wow! I'm really impressed that you didn't put this in the "too hard" basket like I would have, and thought laterally about a solution. I love having fresh vegies and herbs, but am a bit of a useless gardener myself. Thank goodness my mother-in-law is an avid gardener and is happy to do a vegie garden for us! My boy loves getting his gloves on and getting out there with his Nanny!

 
At Thursday, 26 July, 2012 , Anonymous Kelly @ HT and T said...

There's nothing nicer than picking some fresh garden vegies for dinner! Our kids are more likely to eat vegies that we've grown. Good luck with it :)

 
At Friday, 27 July, 2012 , Anonymous jenn @ mountains and musings said...

With the wet wet summer, then baby's arrival and our cold climate our garden got waterlogged and eaten and ignored... it's been shoved so far down into the too hard basket that you have to look hard to find it! It's such a shame that we let it get so out of hand because now that the weather is starting to warm up we're keen to get planting again but there's so much work to be done first!

 
At Friday, 27 July, 2012 , Anonymous Lisa Wood said...

We miss our garden! Good luck with the rabbits ~ we had chickens that we used to have to watch out for. Amazing how much animals love to digg and eat from Garden beds! Like the idea of using pots.

 
At Saturday, 28 July, 2012 , Blogger Camille Griffiths said...

Aww, this really makes me want to start a garden next year... My family used to have one when I was growing up, it's such a great experience.

 

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