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Planting the Summer Veggie Garden

October 31, 2014 By sue Leave a Comment

Labour Weekend (a holiday in NZ on the last Monday in October) is the perfect time for planting your summer veggie garden.  Some plants can be sown or seedlings planted earlier on but summer stalwarts like tomatoes, capsicums, and cucumbers don’t like cold soil and cold night temperatures.  Previously when I’ve been tempted to plant them earlier, they haven’t grown well and in fact ended up behind those that I planted just a few weeks later when the soil was warmer.

P1040652This year the weather was pretty warm a couple of weeks before Labour Weekend so I did go and buy all my plants and seeds earlier than usual, but I kept some of them in my mini-glasshouse for two more weeks before planting out in the garden.

A problem with growing vegetables all year round is that sometimes you have to wait for one crop to finish before you can pull out the plants to put in the next.  This year I had to wait to harvest the last of my broad beans that had been growing like triffids before I could plant up one of my garden spaces.  I decided to grow more herbs there this year, and have included artichoke and fennel for something different.

In an earlier post I talking about growing more veggies in a small space by growing plants upwards wherever you can and planting things close together.  I followed those principles again as you can see in the photos below.

Planting earlier than usual
Planting earlier than usual
Beans and peas up wire frames; sweet corn in between; smaller veggies in front; and potatoes in planter bags
Beans and peas up wire frames; sweet corn in between; smaller veggies in front; and potatoes in planter bags
Radishes up already; carrots and edamame beans just starting to come through; raspberries in the back corner
Radishes up already; carrots and edamame beans just starting to come through; raspberries in the back corner
Lots of veggies in a small space
Lots of veggies in a small space
Early planting
Two weeks later

Early planting
Two weeks later

Lettuces and herbs underplanting the blackberry
Lettuces and herbs underplanting the blackberry
Herb garden just planted
Herb garden just planted
Herb garden just planted
Herb garden just planted

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