Last Saturday I went to another of these lovely lectures put on by the Brisbane City Council. :0) It was about gardening in small spaces, including pots, containers, anything you can use, really! Getting some edible yield out of tiny corners, balconies, etc.
Being one to "give it a go" I volunteered to help plant up a salad box into a large round pot, and thoroughly enjoyed it. After adding seedraising mix, some slow release fertiliser, some organic material, some lovely lettuce, beetroot and coriander seed, I then covered the beautiful little seeds up with some soil & organic matter mixed together.
On Thursday, just five days of watering fun later, the girls & I discovered SEEDLINGS!!! Yep, tiny new shoots of you name it (no seriously, please tell me what would have shot up first) from our mix of seeds! Amazing!
This is a fast growing and high demand box of salad, that needs to be watered every second day after germination (so starting this weekend I'm cutting back on the water a little as I had been watering daily with seaweed extract), and liquid fertilising once a week (I'll be using worm wee or charlie carp)- the result? In 3 - 4 weeks, there'll be salad big enough to rip a piece or two off for our sandwiches!
Ah, amazing.
Pics to come when the camera batteries are charged!
Happy Gardening!
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