The Kitchen Garden...

There is an existing fenced vegetable patch not far from the house, about 8x12 metres, completely overgrown with weeds.

The first gardening task is to get it up and running as a kitchen garden with herbs and whatever vegetables I can plant in winter.

I have spent a few hours over a couple of days digging out the weeds with a mattock. It's pretty hard going for someone whose body has not been conditioned to heavy manual labour, but we're getting there....

A bit of a mess to begin with, that's the passionfruit vine along the north fence.

 The first few hours clearing uncovered trellises, a couple of drums for water and garden bed outlines...

The next lot of clearing, it's starting to look like something you might recognise as a garden bed. We planted 5 small rows of garlic in the northeast corner, we'll see how it goes, they might have been put in a bit late.

Even after all this, it might be a bit too shaded to grow vegetables, there are a some large gum trees which block the sun in the afternoon.

Like everything else here it will be a bit of an experiment at first!