The first vegies in the front yard

In early January I made the decision that I wanted to clear my front yard and start growing vegies in it.  Due to my bad hands (I've since had surgery on one) a friend offered to clear it all.  I then layered it all with cardboard, straw, 3 cubic metres of vegie mix soil and then more straw and this is the result:

My front yard

Today I put the first vegies into it:

Snow peas on the close tower and peas on the far one, planted as seeds

Calabrese Natalino Broccoli and brussel sprouts along the drive way side

Calabrese Natalino Broccoli

Brussel Sprouts

Seeds - the magic of germination

Last Thursday I finally got around to planting some seeds for my winter vegies.  My past history with seeds hasn't been very good but I am now determined to do this well to a)save money and b)plan for succession planting so that I don't have a whole seedling punnet of vegies ready at once and then nothing! My current plan is to try to plant a few seeds every 2-4 weeks or so.  Each time I'm trying to only plant about 4 or so of each except for the beetroot and spring onions.

To help I've got these in the living room under a window and I am spraying them with a water bottle to keep them moist. 

When the first seed popped it's head out of the soil I was pretty excited - it's working! They're alive!

The first seed to come through was a broccoli after only 3 days. 

Here is the progress 5 days on

Spring onions

Brussel Sprouts and Kale

Spinach - no action yet 

Beetroot - the colour is awesome!

Broccoli and cauliflowers

I also have pea and snow peas sprouting on moist paper towel after having soaked them for 24hrs 

Yum!