Our new garden beds

Weekend ni memang weekend yang memenatkan because we spent yesterday and today mostly with things concerning the kebun.

Semalam we all buat pelaburan kat Bunnings and hari ni buat pelaburan kat City Farmers. Kalau beli saham kat this places, memang dah lama we all kaya. Tu yg asik tak dapat beli handbags mahal2 aje sebab asik melabur duit kat dua tempat ni, hehehe.

Semalam we all beli raised garden bed kits sebab macam rasa tak cukup besar aje our current vege patch itu. We want to build a no-dig garden which is the rave sekarang ni. And alang2 dah pergi Bunnings, we all beli lah some more seedlings. I beli some more cherry tomato seedlings, some more strawberry plants, broccolini seedlings, spinach and a blueberry plant! But kena tunggu a few years lagi before boleh kutip hasil blueberries tu .

And tadi I pergi City Farmers beli bales of straw and lupin mulch for the no-dig garden beds. Habis penuh 1 kereta dengan straw tadi, jenuhlah we all kena vacuum, hehehe.

And mana boleh busy2 kat garden without taking photos kan. Dah nama pun mammarazzi berjaya, hikhikhikhik….

My vege patch now. The cucumber plants, the tomato plants and the silverbeets semua dah kena pulled out by me sebab dah tak mengeluarkan hasil yg bagus anymore.

And I gantikan dengan english spinach, lettuce, cherry tomatoes, broccolini and red onions seedlings. Penat gak lah berkebun semalam digging the vege patch and planting all the seedlings (sorang2 I buat you, hehehe).

And petang tadi, The Other Half made up the garden beds and we all bertiga (including Miss 7) bekerja keras filling it up with layers of stuff. We’ve decided to put the garden beds on the concrete under the shade.

First we put old carpet at the bottom layer and then we layer the straw.

Then we scatter dynamic lifter on the straw. Miss 7 as usual nak buat by herself so terpaksalah Dad jadi supervisor aje, hehehe.

Then we put compost (from our own compost bins) to cover the straw.

Then we added potting mix on the compost. But tak cukup pulak potting mix nya so we had to halt the building of the garden beds until esok. We are going to put lupin mulch as the top most layer. Pastu, next weekend boleh lah we all start tanam plants in it.

Dah kepenatan the 2 labourers. Duduk lepak2 atas the straw bale, hehehe…

(memang sebijik farmers lah kan, hahaha).

And then bila dah penat berkebun satu hari suntuk, rasa sangat lah sedapnya bila dapat makan nasi ayam, hehehe.

I made nasi ayam tapi ayam tu di bakar so kuranglah sikit fat nya kan.

Kangkung form our kebun and cili pun from our kebun. Sambal cili ni I guna recipe sambal ayam penyet Ijan. Memang sedap sangat2. Recipe I dapat from here. Thanks Ijan!

Dapat jugak I tahan nafsu dari makan 2 pinggan, hahahaha….