My first vegetable.

I was so excited to pull out my first vegetable, a suede. The motivation for planting suede in the first place was to make a finnish dish called, lanttu laatikko. (And for all my non finnish speaking friends it's a suede box). It graced my mothers table every year at Christmas and I am so happy to have the recipe now to make it myself.

Its in the first planter box you can see, it truly is amazing how one small seedling grows into such a hearty vegetable.




I served it up one evening along with a lamb roast and Jon loved it so much he finished it off in one sitting!

Pick as you go.

Pak Choy - Great to throw into a stir fry or with onions and mushrooms on the BBQ.


Mixed Lettuce - A variety of different lettuces, my favourite has been the cos lettuce.


The thing I love about these 2 plants is I can go and pick them when I need them, I don't need to store them in the fridge. (Outside is enough of a fridge). LOL.

The Veggie Patch that Jon built for me.

After settling in we planned to build a veggie patch. We started with 6 planter boxes however this grew to 10 in no time. Jon dug the grass out of the beds, we laid newspaper and added the soil, bought from the local landscape supplies.


Once the planter boxes were finished I got busy filling them with celery, lettuce and swedes just to name a few. More of what I planted later.


Along one of our many drives around the Huon Valley, we stumbled across a veggie patch which had black netting. I loved the black and after a lot of effort on Jon's behalf he found some. It was so nice of Mark and Deanne to help us with the finishing touches, Mark especially did a great job.




Erik no longer had a nice place for his day naps.


We purchased an old screen door from the local tip for a mere $5.00, it was a great buy.


The finished veggie patch! I LOVE the view from here, and it's a great place to ponder life.