Homeschool Outside-a small veggie patch

When you’re renting a place here, you generally can’t really change anything. Inside or outside.

So when we bought this place last year, one of the things I was looking forward to was finally being able to plant some veggies. And now that hubby had a few days of holiday, that finally happened-after he toiled to dig the lawn out and all the stones and cement that were (and still are) hiding underground. Our sand soil is terribly unhealthy, it’s virtually beach sand, so lots of healthy nutritious soil had to be bought.

Watering the lettuce and green pepper plants

We’ve planted various flowers (including the notoriously high maintenance rose)as well as the green beans, onions, spring onions, carrots, tomatoes, a type of rape, spinach,  beetroot (aka beets in the US,) lettuce, green pepper and are yet to plant aubergine and sweet melon. (I’ve forgotten what those abroad call it.)  aka cantaloupe. Of those, I’ll be able to eat the carrots, aubergine and sweet melon-according to the FODMAP diet.

The beauty is that when hubby started the garden, it coincided (providentially?) with the start of their new Bible and Nature lessons-the nature lessons being on “GARDENS AND GARDENING!” So we can now ‘see’ it happening right before our eyes. And actually do it too. Great timing.

Windy…Watering the inions