Support

 

The Peas and the Broad Beans are getting taller. Rather than putting more pegs in the ground, string tied to the trellis helps as a “creeping guides” with a weight/stone hanging next to each little plant.

Vegetable Garden Layout II

All the old concrete tiles on the property were collected to do the layout



Everybody came to help when the horse manure compost arrived

Many drawings later the final design is based on how many tiles are available

Vegetable Garden Layout I

The pool, plastered with Marble Plaster and 

filled with water within 24 hours for the plaster to cure slowly

 

The area next to the pool will be the new vegetable/kitchen garden.

To keep the vegetable garden as organic as possible, I have been reading a lot about companion planting. This led me to discover very beautiful French “potager” gardens on the internet.



Beautiful Mango and Pineapple plants in the garden

16 Nov to 14 Dec 2011

~ removing the enormous fiberglass pool ~

  

~ because the fibre pool and surround was built above ground ~

~ it took 4 days to bulldoze and 14 truck loads to remove the structure ~ 

14 jan 2012

~ finally, the new hand plastered pool near completion ~