RE: Why are we growing chickpeas
oh my i am so jealous of your amazing garden.... how amazing! I started vege gardening a couple of year ago, and although we have a large yard, it's all taken up with things that can't be dug up for vegetables. our large lawn is also the "drive through" area to get to the shed in the back.
This means everything has to be in pots. I have a big home made irrigation system that goes between from the water tanks. (we are in Australia and water is rather precious here sometimes.)
My daughter (she is 3) loves eating from the garden as well. She knows the names of plants at school and happily tells her Teachers about the school garden plants. They have a big vege patch and chickens in her school yard.
thanks for sharing i shall pop out and do some gardening right now :-)
Sarah
Wow, a garden with chickens in the school yard! If we had that here, I might start getting second thoughts about home schooling!
Container gardening has its benefits and merits, I do find that constrains inspire creativity! Even though we now have a garden, for more than 5 years we've grown lettuce, radishes, carrots, basil and lots of other herbs on our office window sills :)
Thank you for your comment, I especially love that you've included a photo! Is t hat a tomato plant up front?
Yes that was a tomato plant that came home from school :-) they even have a worm farm in the school yard as well. I’m very happy with the family care she gets there. I have lots of friends here that homeschool. Yes we have veges inside too. It does limit creativity and actually costs more and more labor intensive. But at least we get home grown produce. The best year I got 300kg of produce out of them.