Most of the container garden has survived!  (Excluding the few plants that fell victim to the cat)

Our cucumber plants are doing especially well and are now covered in flowers; hopefully we will see some baby cucumbers shortly…

Our tomato plants are still fairly small, but healthy, as are our silverbeet (who suffered a bit of damage in a storm we had but are recovering nicely.

Our lettuce, zucchini and Cumquats are also looking pretty good (if I say so myself;) ).

If we were able to pass the test we set for ourselves- to keep plants alive from seeds to beyond the seedling stage- we would trust ourselves with building our ‘real’ vegetable garden.  Basically, we wanted to see if we would remember to water and look after something that was ‘out of sight’ in the backyard…

In order to have enough sunlight in our backyard for our garden beds we are having a number of trees removed in the next fortnight (horrible chinese elms!).  

Our garden beds have arrived, and our new seeds have been sown so that we have nice strong seedlings to transplant when the beds are ready.

It is getting exciting!

I shall be posting the journey of our backyard’s transformation here.