The VegTrug - My Experience - Update
You may remember from a previous blog entry the piece entitled - The VegTrug - My Experience . We planted the VegTrug at home in early April with a mixture of seeds and seedlings. Well it's now June 11th and I thought it would be timely for a quick update as we are just about to carry out a second planting this weekend.
Since early May we have enjoyed superb fresh radishes, spring onions and lettuces as well as a few carrots. We have also been picking the herbs - sage, Thyme, Rosemary and Parsley, using them as required on a daily basis.
It hasn't all been a success. The cherry tomato and melon plants were unfortunately a victim of the late frosts and we took the opportunity today to clear them out and will use the space this weekend to plant some different vegetables again.
Young Louis and the rest of the family have tended the VegTrug most days. It has simply been a case of watering on the days when we have not had rain and pinching out any weeds as they appear. This has not been back breaking work and because the VegTrug is at waist height we can usually spend a pleasant couple of minutes late afternoon just checking our crop and tending it as required. We have not seen a single slug or snail in the VegTrug which has been great.
The strawberries are looking really good and Louis is asking every day to check and see if they are ready. Vegetable consumption for the kids has gone up beyond belief. In actual fact so has mine! The spring onions from the VegTrug have to be tasted to be believed - like nothing we have ever bought from a supermarket.
Now that we have had the VegTrug going for some weeks, we will start to feed the plants as we water it now to make sure that there is still enough nutrient in the soil for the new plants going in this weekend and to keep the current ones fed well. You might have noticed that Louis has grown in 8 weeks as well!
Here are some photos I took today as we pulled some spring onions for lunch!
Louis pinching out any weeds
Strawberry plants are thriving
Front section cleared and ready for new seeds / seedlings
Great Parsley
The latest spring onions for today's lunch
Superb Lettuces
Since early May we have enjoyed superb fresh radishes, spring onions and lettuces as well as a few carrots. We have also been picking the herbs - sage, Thyme, Rosemary and Parsley, using them as required on a daily basis.It hasn't all been a success. The cherry tomato and melon plants were unfortunately a victim of the late frosts and we took the opportunity today to clear them out and will use the space this weekend to plant some different vegetables again.
Young Louis and the rest of the family have tended the VegTrug most days. It has simply been a case of watering on the days when we have not had rain and pinching out any weeds as they appear. This has not been back breaking work and because the VegTrug is at waist height we can usually spend a pleasant couple of minutes late afternoon just checking our crop and tending it as required. We have not seen a single slug or snail in the VegTrug which has been great.
The strawberries are looking really good and Louis is asking every day to check and see if they are ready. Vegetable consumption for the kids has gone up beyond belief. In actual fact so has mine! The spring onions from the VegTrug have to be tasted to be believed - like nothing we have ever bought from a supermarket.
Now that we have had the VegTrug going for some weeks, we will start to feed the plants as we water it now to make sure that there is still enough nutrient in the soil for the new plants going in this weekend and to keep the current ones fed well. You might have noticed that Louis has grown in 8 weeks as well!
Here are some photos I took today as we pulled some spring onions for lunch!
Louis pinching out any weeds
Strawberry plants are thriving
Front section cleared and ready for new seeds / seedlings
Great Parsley
The latest spring onions for today's lunch
Superb Lettuces
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