Welcome to my adventure...

 

Hi, 

My name is Holly. I want to welcome you to The Sugar Glider Patch. 
I've been trying to think of how I want to share my garden with the world. I have an Instagram page but sometimes you just need a bit more words to go with your images. 

So, here I am. Starting a blog all to do with my garden.

I live in the outer suburbs of Metropolitan Melbourne, Australia, on Wurundjeri Country.
My patch isn't very big, but I'm working at trying to figure out how best to utilize the space I've been blessed with. 
In the past, I have only grown your normal, run of the mill veggies, but this year I have been trying to build my plant variety ever so slowly so that eventually I can achieve self-sufficiency. 

Winter this year wasn't the greatest here. Our weather was so odd and a lot of my crops didn't mature until Spring. I still have a Brussel Sprout plant that is in my garden that still hasn't got its bobbles grown on it, but I'm being patient and seeing how it goes because we are still having winter style weather here. Because of that, I have been delayed in planting out my Spring/Summer crops. I have seedlings in my greenhouse all waiting patiently for the weather to warm up so they can survive the frost. 

This Spring/Summer I will be planting some varieties that I have never attempted before, so it will be an adventure to see how I go in achieving a bountiful harvest. 

The veggies that are hanging out waiting to be planting are: 

• Spaghetti Squash
• Kent Pumpkin
• Sugar Small Pumpkin
• Luffa Gourd
• Patty Pan Squash
• Cucamelon
• Tigerella Cherry Tomatoes
• Oxheart Tomatoes
• Sweet Corn
• Heirloom Mixed Eggplants (I haven't grown them before and decided to grab a mix to try a variety of eggplants)
• Sweet Banana Capsicum
• Candy Striped Capsicum
• Giant Bell Capsicum
• Blue Curled Leaf Kale (which are just small and aren't out in the garden because of their size, not the weather)
• Black Beauty Zucchini

I also have some flowers growing in the greenhouse and are still babies waiting to get strong enough to survive in the big, wide world: 

• Borage
• Marigold
• Cornflowers
• Zinnia
• Dahlia

Right now I have in the veggie patch:

• Golden Detroit Beetroot
• Detroit Beetroot
• Chinese Cabbage
• Savoy Cabbage
• Brussel Sprouts
• Kohl Rabi
• English Spinach
• Cherry Radishes
• Daikon Radish (Which just got pulled)
• Purple Dragon Carrots
• Standard All Year Carrots
• Potatoes
• Adzuki Beans
• Snow Peas
• Sugar Snap Peas
• Butter Bean
• Borlotti Bean
• Strawberries

 We also have a few fruit trees scattered around: 

• Pink Lady Apple
• Granny Smith Apple
• Lemonade Lemon
• Fireball Apricot
• Williams Pear
• Mulberry 
• Plum
• And there is an Avocado tree currently growing in the greenhouse! 

So I guess I'm going to use this space to share my garden adventures, to share any tips, to share my mishaps, and to share garden love to the world around me. 

Please join me on my journey with nature as I feed my body, mind, and soul getting my hands dirty in my garden.

-Holly.