This is a photo of our herb garden seen here in the front and our veggie garden seen further at the back under the shade cloth.
We have quite a variety of herbs because I like to use them for cooking, teas and remedies.
I thought I should write something about our veggie and herb garden since growing veggies and herbs are one of my passions. This is a photo from our Broccoli bed.
We make all our own compost using kitchen scraps, grass cuttings, fallen leaves and Comfrey as an activator. We also add horse manure. We layer our compost, first we dig the soil in an area of about 5ft by 5ft and wet it, then we place a layer of thin sticks, then dry material, manure and then green material. Each layer is hosed down to wet the heap. We usually make the heap about 1m high and when we are finished we cover it with straw to keep the moisture in. Within a few hours the heap should be heating up. By the next day it is usually boiling. After a few weeks we turn the heap and then let it do all the work. After a few months we have lovely compost.
This is one of our compost heaps. It is ready to be used all the organic matter has broken down completely and smells divine!
One of our heavily laiden lemon trees in our garden. We use our lemons for so many things, Lemonade, Lemon Merangue, lemon tea etc.. I also use lemon to make my home made cleaning products that I use to clean around our home. I love my lemon trees, there is something so satisfying to be able to go outside and just pick a lemon when I need one.
