Day 1

Today we ordered our seeds for our garden in sunny suburbia, Randwick Sydney.
We hope over the course of the year to say goodbye to buying our vegies from some multinational, fascist regime aka Coles, but that is the subject of another blog. My partner in crime is the bodacious Jessica.

Jessica here. My parner in no dig gardening is Chris, the ever effervescent.

We ordered:

Leafy vegies plot

Silverbeet (Silverbeet fordhook)

Lettuce (Brown Romain salad)

Cos verdi

Spinach (English)

Bergamot

Fruiting vegie plot

Tomato (Grosse lisse)

Roma tomato

Garlic chives

Chamomile

Basil

Legumes plot

Chick peas

Snow peas

Sugar snap peas

Alfalfa

Root vegies

Carrot (Chantenay red cored)

Leek (Giant Carentan Leek)

Beetroot

Paper daisy

Garlic chives

Oregano

We've no idea how these things grow or how many will fit in our plot, but maybe along the way we will learn!

A bit about our plot! Its about 2metres by 2 metres within a larger community garden. All the gardens are grown along organic principles so we won't be able to reach for a bottle of chemicals derived from the petro chemical industry (what a shame).
Both of us (I can confidendlty say) are city folk that until recently thought that tomatoes grew in cans!
This will be an adventure for us, and we hope you can stay for the ride as we do oour best (and worst) to try to grow something edible from the Australian soil.

Stay tuned as tomorrow we are going to start the garden by planting some sunflower seeds to fix the nitrogen in the soil (or so Jess tells me).

Cheers Chris and Jess (the hopeful gardeners)