Well we now have approx 13 metres by 2 of new vege patches which have walls (on three sides) of pea straw(bales). This method will hopefully help with the wind, heat and moisture retention. Also it will provide us with lots of mulch for next year. So in total with the other vege patches I have approx 36m2 vacant (or soon to be) for spring/summer planting and I still don’t think that will be enough. I will be planting the pumkins, water melons, Minnesota melons and zucchini all elsewhere so they can just sprawl.

So in the first straw bed (approx 3×2) this will be corn, I plan to plant 4 seeds each week. This should give us (assuming all seeds come up) over the summer approx 24 – 30 corn plants.

The next 5 metre bed will be tomatoes and capsicum. The last 5 metre garden bed will be beans (hopefully we will get enough to dry. On top of that we have approx 3 other available (or soon will be) beds (another 10m2) . I still think I am a bed or three short, but we will see how they go over he next few weeks.

Two of the three straw beds

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