Productive gardening

Repotted basil plant.

Soon to be zucchini.

When I think about what I would like in a dream house, a vegetable and herb garden are always featured. I like productive gardens, but until now I had never had a place to really grow one. My inner city apartment in Spring Hill had a small front garden, but it wasn't really suitable for a vegie patch - plus it was communal. I had at one point or another considered putting pots on my back stairs, but it was street facing and I always worried about what would happen to any property I left out there.

Soon to be tomatoes.

When I lived in Perth I dabbled a little on the gardening front, I had a tomato plant for a while, mostly due to me putting the scraps from my kitchen in the garden of the small courtyard style garden I had and tomatoes seem to bloom so easily. But I didn't have the know-how and tools to keep insects from eating it. I also planted some carrots briefly, but the Perth desert soil is so sandy that sometimes it's difficult to get things to grow in it. In the end I resorted to natives and left it at that.


We don't exactly have the best garden where we are now, the owner has fashioned some sort of pond lagoon and rock formation out of the small back garden and put a spa in the corner (which is covered and we're not allowed to use). The front garden would be the most ideal place to start a vegie patch and we're fenced from the street, but that would require erecting some kind of garden bed onto the grass and I somehow think that would be frowned upon. 

Chilli plant - was a little wilted
yesterday from being in the car
but he's bounced back this morning.

So yesterday I decided that if I really wanted a small vegie/herb patch it would have to be pots on the deck. I headed off to Bunnings and got everything required to get started.


I repotted a little basil plant that had been sitting in my kitchen but couldn't last too much longer in it's little pot and then added a few others to the collection.