Vegetable Gardens - Bridget's Edible Garden Dairy

Vegetable Garden Tips - Bridget's Edible Garden Diary for June Vegetable Garden Tips. Bridget's Edible Garden Diary. What to plant, caring for your vegetables and edibles, what to do with your harvest, preserve or eat. Heather (Living Earth) and I at the beginning of my veggie blog last June Well I never!  As I started to... > Read more

Bridget’s Veggie Patch – May Growth has begun to slow down already, even though we have not officially had a frost in Auckland.  My peas, sugar snaps, broccoli and beetroot are growing well though, and my radishes are ready for harvest.   This... > Read more

Bridget's Veggie Patch in April Autumn is actually my favourite time of the year to garden.  There is something about autumn mornings.  That still, blue sky matched with a crisp slightly damp air.  Often warming up to a beautiful sunny day.  I like that there is not the... > Read more

Bridget's Veggie Patch - March  I started out with bumper crops of just about everything.  But in January we went away with our family and I just ended up staying in the Coromandel until school started again in... > Read more

Bridget's Vege Patch - January This year I have all my relatives coming over to our house for Christmas, so much of my attention has been on finishing the other parts of the garden.  Although I have been keeping an eye on my veggies because my Grandparents were farmers and Nana always... > Read more

Bridget's Vege Patch in December I was able to harvest all of my Broad Beans over the last two weeks.  I have to admit to being at a bit of a loss as to what to do with Broad Beans, I blanched them and added them to salads mainly but I harvested so many that some did perish before we... > Read more

Bridget's Vege Patch - November I have been lucky enough to speak with lots of you this month, both through email and while I have been working at the yard.  As is the usual pattern for November, many of you (including myself) are busy in the garden both generally and vegetables.  I... > Read more

Bridget's Vege Patch in October I have to congratulate myself on such a beautiful vegetable garden.  This year most everything (except my celery) is growing abundantly and I think that has much to do with this blog in so much that it forces me to do just a little bit of work in the... > Read more

Bridget’s Vege Patch in SeptemberI am still feeling very motivated with my vege patch, partly because it is growing so well and partly because there is now a bit of light at the end of the tunnel with the first day of spring just passed.... > Read more

Bridget's Vege Patch in August We had some great fun in the holidays planting our strawberries. ... > Read more

Bridget’s Vege Patch – July No sooner had I planted all of my... > Read more

It started in May with a very random looking patch.  Now I must point out that I have the tendency to get all excited and go out shopping for seedlings, only to fill up my area (making it look... > Read more