The big little picture

Here is a wide shot of my main garden space. Chickens up the back on the right, peas trained on the fence.Beans next to the chickens, garlic on the right up the front, and two beds of onions  which are a bit hard to see, one next to garlic in the front and one in front of the beans. New three sisters planting on the back left. Went out and did a bit of weeding this morning, just a couple of rows to keep up with the little buggers . Good-o!

Virgin Post

Prepared a bed and planted the corn for a "three sisters" crop today. Yes it's not pretty but its about food not garden shows! under each hump is a good shovel of compost. I have grown all these before- corn, pumpkin and beans- but never in this companion planting context so it should be interesting. They're supposed to help each other along when planted together, I'll be putting in the beans when the corn is 4 inches high.

I have a feeling that the raised beds are more appropriate for clay soil and that the humps will actually make evaporation a nightmare here in Western Australia, with sandy soil and 45 celcius in the summer. As I ws finishing I thought next time I'll do the opposite and bury the compost in holes: we will see.