have a vegetable and herb garden

Well, done in the sense that I moved houses, and no longer have a garden…
That sucks. But nothing to do about it.

Everything is growing quite well, but those damn snails ruin my pumpkin-leaves! I’ve already surrounded the small plans with broken shells (I want to garden ecologically, so I don’t want to kill the snails, I just want them to get away from my plants!) but somehow they crawl through the sharp shells and still manage to continue eating! Maybe I’ll comletely block the ‘entrance’ by sticking those wooden sticks (you use on the barbecue, don’t know what it’s called) around the plants so they really can’t get through.

So I’ve finally, finally cleaned up a part of the garden and prepared the soil for my vegetable garden! It was too small for a herb section, so I’ll do that somewhere else later on. Now I’ve planted seeds of amongst other things pumpkins and lettuce, and I’ve relocated my tomato-plants which I had started to grow indoors.
So now let’s hope it works out!

Going well, although the actually space in the garden is still packed with bamboo (it’s so hard to dig it out!), I’ve got lots of little pots around the house with small plants and herbs! The tomato plants are growing like crazy, it’s so cool to see what nature does!

Although the garden is still a jungle, I’ve already pointed out an area for my vegetable and herb garden (all that stands between me and my vegetables is a huge chunk of ugly bamboo that needs to be destroyed!) and last weekend I bought some packets with seeds! I’ve got easy stuff, like lettuce, onions… And I’ve planted the tomato seeds in those little squared thingies, so they can become plants indoors and then they can transfer out to the garden when it’s finished. Same with some herbs, I’ve already got three herbs in pots!
It’s so cool, planting seeds and nurturing them and then watching it come out and grow! It’s so much better than planting plants bought in a gardening-store! It’s like your own creation, wonderful! And very calming too, after a hard day at work…

I think this is going to take while. The garden is one big mess, full of dead wood and trash, it takes a long time to clean it all up! It might even be so that I won’t have my vegetable and herb garden until next year! Because by the time I’ve cleaned it all up and decided how to arrange the garden, it’ll be too late to plant new stuff…

Next step in this goal: I bought myself a book! Gardening for beginners, and it includes a section on setting up an organic vegetable and herb garden. My fingers are itching, but I have to read the info first so I’m properly prepared!

I’m so looking forward to spring! Now we’re still busy renovating the house itself, but I’m really really looking forward to finishing the house and being able to work on making the garden our own cool garden! And thus, make my own vegetable and herb garden! My fingers are itching, and I have to tell myself strongly and firmly to not buy stuff for the garden just yet!

I just bought a house, which is great because we’re moving from third floor to the ground floor, with a garden that’s so huge, it’s brilliant! So I want a corner in the big big garden where I can grow vegetables and herbs, I’m so looking forward to it!