Growing my own vegie patch

Since we moved to our own place, I am looking forward to the day when I have enough time to tend our garden and grow my own fruits and vegetables. When my parents came for a visit in April, they did a clean-up and planted a few spices --- lemon grass, spring onion and ginger. Sadly, only the spring onion grew (but I am not losing hope, the ginger is still there and the lemon grass is still alive).

At the start of Spring, hubby and I visited Bunnings with the intention of buying Strawberry pot and Kalamansi Fruit Tree. There's no Kalamansi but I went home with a sack of soil (coz our backyard soil is sandy/clayish type), strawberry, tomato, basil, mint, parsley and a few packets of onions, chili and capsicum. A month after, my tomato and strawberry has its first flowers and my chili is growing fast. The onions and capsicums are just sprouting but soon, I will have loads of them too.

strawberry bud

tomato flowers

chili --- soon to be replanted

parsley

Basil

On Saturday, I will plant my carrots, cucumber, lettuce and chives so hopefully be early summer, all my spices will be homegrown. Currently, most of the dishes I cook would have a touch of parsley and basil on them, and a little bit of spring onion too!

Oh, and the flowers that Agie and Yen gave me last February are still blooming. They give color to an otherwise green and brown backyard of mine. I may need to sow my grasses soon to take advantage of the rainy weather and maybe buy the needed bricks to complete the backyard makeover.

I'm loving spring!!!