After our first veggie garden and how well it went, we were very keen on getting another one going again. However, not long after finishing the planting of our second veggie garden, we got Shadow.

Dina got a rebate back from the Tax Man so we decide to use some of it and build a proper enclosure for the veggie garden, and subsequently make it bigger too. So off Dina went with her dad and bought the materials and my dad joined them later to spend a few hours building a 1.5m (5 ft) tall diamon-mesh fence with a wooden gate for access.

This morning my dad and I went to buy some compost and various seedlings to plant. We hung the gate, planted the seedlings and now we have another veggie garden growing nicely.

Hopefully the dogs (and the kids) will stay out and the veggies will grow nicely. Not too long from now we should have some corn, lettuce, broccoli, spring onions and spinach, green beans, tomatoes and green peppers to eat. Yum!

On my previous blog posts about our home vegetable garden I said I’d let you know what the fruits of our labour look like. Well here it finally is. We’ve picked off one or two cherry tomatoes already but the rest are all still green – but there are LOADS of them so we should have quite a few when they all ripen.

The lettuces and spinaches have served us well, but no photos since we never picked the whole plant/head just a few leaves at a time. We’ve had a few peppers already (probably half a dozen in total) and below are two that I picked this morning, along with three of the corn cobs. I just had to take photos of them to share with you.

Just look at the size of these suckers. The pepper a good 4.5″ (11.5 cm) long and the corn a 7″ (18 cm) – not bad I say for some home-grown veggies, eh?