Over the next few weeks, our wonderful gardener Bree and her crew – that’s David, will build an enclosure that will house our first real vegetable and herb kitchen garden since the one we had in Fairway Drive, Richardson, Texas back in the 1990s. We (that is, the gardeners) had planted pumpkins, zucchini, tomatoes, and other fabulous vegetables, and the vines grew and grew over the garden, with the promise of new vegetable growth, and then we had to move house. We never got to reap the benefits of that garden. Such a shame. Moshe and I had also created a vegetable patch in the first house we lived in, back in 1977, right after we got married. Remember that one, Moshe? There was a two metre square area in our back yard in that run-down house where the back door never quite closed enough so we could lock it, and we planted our vegetables – watermelon, pumpkins, and other things that I can’t remember now. The creeping vines covered most of the lawn, and I think we did get to serve some of the produce on our dinner table.
Here is the site of my soon-to-be new kitchen garden…

I’m so excited about this new venture. I’m about to browse the isles of the Diggers and the Greenpatch Organic Seeds websites for fabulous organic herbs and vegetables to plant in our garden, once the grass has died off, and the fence to keep our puppies and the local possums out is put up, and covered with netting to keep the birds out. Any recommendations for what I should plant this time of the year in Melbourne?