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Spring Garden Update

My property has two main garden beds, the short wide bed raised which runs the length of my back fence which we'll call the back bed and the smaller 1x2m^2 low raised bed in front of the rainwater tank which we'll call tank bed.

Winter

Through the winter tank bed was a disaster, it turns out it doesn't really get much sun in winter so it just spent most of it's time wet so virtually nothing grew.

Back bed has been planted with spinach, rocket, kale, sporadic radishes, carrots, silverbeet (swiss chard), broad beans, a dwarf imperial mandarin and a passionfruit vine. The leafy greens have been going really really well, I've always loved going out in the morning and collecting some to put in to lunch for the day. Broad beans were sort of a random decision when I was at the hardware store. They're finally big enough to harvest which is exciting. I've pulled a bunch of pods, shelled the beans, blanched them and then shelled them out of their little internal pods. I've never really ea