Okey dokey, here's a tour of corny's kitchen garden at Nonsuch.
First, the gratuitous piccie of the cat. LOL
Now to business. The starting point - potting area (deplorably messy), tools hanging down the wall.
The greenhouse - I am heading into winter now, so most of my winter seedlings are out and I'm only holding back a few things to grow on through winter in the greenhouse. Rather like Pamela, I have my 'sun' token hanging at the back.
A broad view of the three 'back' beds and the compost bays. Note all the protective gargoyles about.
This area is at the back of my block and at the top of the hill I am on, so it is frost free and sunny.
Closeup of two of the gnomes and a hoe.
One of my protective garden owls - they keep the blackbirds off the garden beds.
And another shot of the compost bays, protective gnomes and garden bed planted out with winter veg.
Here is a new kitchen garden bed area I am developing over this winter - putting in 3 raised beds. This is a bright and sunny patio and they should do well here. The gardens surrounding this patio hold fruit trees, rhubarb and soft fruit bushes.
This weedy patch is where another raised bed will be going - that's a young peach tree behind and a nice view back to Mt Despair in the distance (mostly obscured by the peach). LOL The covered thingee is a BBQ.
Turning about a bit is a useless bed under the house windows - I have tried and tried here but it has deep perennial weed roots - so plastic is going down and big terracotta pots going in so it can finally become useful. That's a couple of bay trees in the blue pot.
The overgrown patch of rhubarb - this will continue to produce over winter. It is amazing.
The messy comfrey and raspberry and pumpkin patch! Once the pumpkins are done all the raspberries are coming out (they don't produce well) and yet more raised beds will be going in here. We're moving on down the hill a bit, now.
Down the hill now about halfway and here is an area that was once ornamental but now given over to food. This raised oval bed is having a rest as I try to get rid of the weeds in it. One of my jobs soon will be to resurrect it.
Turning about and looking back over a big raised bed-mostly a bit weedy now but this is often given over to things like pumpkins where they can spread out. Behind it by the garden lamp is a path leading down the hill into the ornamental bog garden.
And finally (!) the side of the house garden where yet two MORE raised beds are going in this winter. The tree is a useless ornamental weeping pear.
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