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I started gardening in December last year, so I'm all new to it. I have a small backgarden with not much room for food production, but I've already been eating off it on a daily basis for over a month now 
I love to experiment and try new things, see what works and what doesn't, how I can improve it, etc. I'm into organic gardening, permaculture and building microclimates for things to grow faster or grow at all where/when they're not supposed to... coconut palms and such... just kidding. This garden is my little playground.
Currently I have a bed with leafy greens - kale, rocket, mustard greens, spring onions, chickweed, lamb's lettuce - as well as some regular and wild strawberries, spring onions (which I treat as cut-and-come-again leafy greens), garlic (I think some is ready for harvest now). Earlier in April I sowed some peas and planted an oregano bush.
I'm also nursing some tomatoes from seed in my cheap plastic greenhouse, a store-bought "Outdoor Girl" tomato and a grafted sweet pepper, which are now growing happily in their growbags. The tomato is flowering.
As for fruit, in January I bought a kumquat and pineapple guava, which are still in pots, and in February I planted in the ground some raspberries, gooseberries, currants, a kiwi, red grapevine, and a goji berry.
I'm also hoping to get some passifloras to fruit - caerulea, mollissima, violacea and perhaps even edulis.
In the winter I managed to germinate an avocado, but the root rotted, so I'm going to give it another go.
I look forward to sharing my limited experience and learning from you more experienced food growers
I love to experiment and try new things, see what works and what doesn't, how I can improve it, etc. I'm into organic gardening, permaculture and building microclimates for things to grow faster or grow at all where/when they're not supposed to... coconut palms and such... just kidding. This garden is my little playground.
Currently I have a bed with leafy greens - kale, rocket, mustard greens, spring onions, chickweed, lamb's lettuce - as well as some regular and wild strawberries, spring onions (which I treat as cut-and-come-again leafy greens), garlic (I think some is ready for harvest now). Earlier in April I sowed some peas and planted an oregano bush.
I'm also nursing some tomatoes from seed in my cheap plastic greenhouse, a store-bought "Outdoor Girl" tomato and a grafted sweet pepper, which are now growing happily in their growbags. The tomato is flowering.
As for fruit, in January I bought a kumquat and pineapple guava, which are still in pots, and in February I planted in the ground some raspberries, gooseberries, currants, a kiwi, red grapevine, and a goji berry.
I'm also hoping to get some passifloras to fruit - caerulea, mollissima, violacea and perhaps even edulis.
In the winter I managed to germinate an avocado, but the root rotted, so I'm going to give it another go.
I look forward to sharing my limited experience and learning from you more experienced food growers
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