Spring alive! If your garden has been growing piles of vegetables maybe you shouldn’t give yourself all the credit. The rain this spring has been very generous and everything seems to be growing itself. In fact all of 2010 has been a fantastic year for gardening due to steady rainfall we’ve had. What a contrast this has been since the second half of last year when we had no rain at all since that hot August; it was an entirely different story then. It just goes to show that if you are serious about growing your own food that we can’t always depend on the rain to give us a helping hand.
A basic organic gardening tip would be to constantly work at the soil and add that all important organic matter. Work on the soil and you will have more soil moisture. An easy way to do this is by growing your mulch on site in the way of lemon grass and comfrey. These can be planted around the edges of the garden beds and will provide you with a permanent source of mulch as well as define the borders of your garden beds. It is still a very good time of the year to plant those favourites such as eggplants, capsicums, sweet corn and climbing beans. Other plants such as tropical vegetables can also be planted and these include yams, cassava, aibika, Peruvian spinach as well as many other varieties. You can see how these tropical vegetables grow at the Yandina Community Gardens as well as source them from their nursery so you can grow them for yourself.
