Yes, when I was a youngster everybody had a vege garden in the back yard, and my Father was forever giving away produce to neighbours and visitors, Cheers.
I get great pleasure from maintaining my kitchen garden. Always have something to give away.
Current crop ..
Cos lettuce ... Zucchini ... Tomatoes ... Egg Plant ... Chili ... Parsley... Garlic chives .. Mignonette lettuce ... common mint ... Asian Mint ... Dwarf beans .. Coriander ... Thyme ... Marjoram ... Leeks ... Radish .. Snow peas ... snake beans ... cucumber ... Silver beet ... perpetual spinach & warrigal greens. Edit .. Forgot Kale & Greek Basil
Elsewhere in the garden .. Tahitian limes ... Bananas ... paw paw ... Mandarin ... Mulberry ... Alo vera ... curry leaves ... Bay Tree ... pots of - Oranges, Myer lemon & 2x finger limes bushes. edit .. sorry, forgot potted lemon grass & Kaffir Lime . I prune a few branches off the neighbour's Lemon Myrtle (for tea making) occasionally. ... (cut down the mango tree a few weeks ago .. bloody flying foxes got all the fruit )
edit .. added a few more
-- Edited by Cupie on Wednesday 6th of September 2023 11:06:41 AM
Yes, when I was a youngster everybody had a vege garden in the back yard, and my Father was forever giving away produce to neighbours and visitors, Cheers.
yep My Father did the same. I think that is where I got my love of gardening (& tools) from.
We always had a very large Vege garden that rotated with the chook run.
One of my afternoon jobs was watering the gardens, especial the bloody marrows that I hated but grew in profusion. Mum wasn't the greatest cook & she boiled the bejesus out of them.
My Father spent over 3 years as a POW in Singapore & I think that his survival to a large extent depended on gardening skills to ward off certain starvation. For many years he had a pair of 'clogs' (carved wooden sole & canvas strip across the back of the toes as the upper) that he brought home & would always wear them when gardening along with an old slouch hat & a pair of long kaki shorts. He just couldn't exist without his garden. I still use the techniques that he taught me & some of his tools, only 70+ years ago.
-- Edited by Cupie on Wednesday 6th of September 2023 11:20:53 AM
I`m with you on this one Cupie ,my garden keeps me alive . Allways stuff to do ,although not so much now as we get away more .used to grow many hundreds of flowers and tons of veg . Now a 2/3 empty tunnel house with mainly succulants and my latest fad ,carniverous plants . As you ,still got loads of my dads tools ,(a couple of grandads too )all as original (no handles or heads replaced ,which will be passed on to at least one child who shows a keen interest .
Luv it . Andy .
