Grow Food Not Lawns

I have been following this facebook page - Grow Food Not Lawns for a while now and really embrace the philosophy.  I now look at my front lawn (well lawn is an optimistic word - more likely weeds) and picture all of the lovely things I could plant in its place.

If you have followed my blog for a little while you may have seen my post about digging up some of my lawn and planting pumpkins.  This has been a roaring success with us having picked around 8 pumpkins to date and there are at least three more growing.  I have turned them into pumpkin soup and roasted veggie frittatas among other things.  I have also been able to give a couple away to friends which was great.

So, with that success in hand, I set my sights on turning another patch of weeds along the driveway into a productive extension of my veggie garden.

It took quite a bit of digging over.  The existing soil is virtually sand so I added in some compost and a bit of potting mix too.  Then I planted some silverbeet and a couple of beetroot plants.

I will take pics in a couple of weeks to show the progress.  I hope they will flourish.  I noticed today that they get all the morning sun but are shaded in the afternoon so we shall see if they like this spot or not.