In late Dec 2012, I decided to set a goal to grow 1000 kg of food in my back yard. At that point I had 4 small raised beds and no other gardens in place. Was I crazy? Maybe! But I knew I wanted/needed to grow more food, and in order to motivate myself I needed to set a goal and make it public - ie tell my friends. My friends wanted to see my monthly photos...and out of that came the creation of this blog.
If you've read the previous blog post, you will see that as of the 31st of December 2013, I had harvested 863 kg of food from my back yard! Not quite my 1000 kg goal, but definitely a lot of food - food I wouldn't have grown if I hadn't set the goal. Besides, knowing that I was only getting started mid way through last summer (summers here in NZ are Dec-Feb), I was always flexible about whether the "year" would end on 31st Dec or at the end of the 2013/14 summer.
Let's take a quick look at what my garden looked like when I started this crazy gardening goal - photos taken Jan 2013:
If you've read the previous blog post, you will see that as of the 31st of December 2013, I had harvested 863 kg of food from my back yard! Not quite my 1000 kg goal, but definitely a lot of food - food I wouldn't have grown if I hadn't set the goal. Besides, knowing that I was only getting started mid way through last summer (summers here in NZ are Dec-Feb), I was always flexible about whether the "year" would end on 31st Dec or at the end of the 2013/14 summer.
Let's take a quick look at what my garden looked like when I started this crazy gardening goal - photos taken Jan 2013:
Four 2m x 1m raised beds, with a few veges in them.
Lots of open space.
A year later, January 2014......
Remember, basically NONE of any of this existed a year ago!
And this is just ONE part of my yard...I've also begun creating gardens in my front yard and an old chicken run....photos of some of that in the Jan pics to be posted soon.
Do YOU have a gardening goal? What is it? Leave a comment!
Do YOU have a gardening goal? What is it? Leave a comment!
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