At last, a vegetable garden!

 I'm a vegetarian but, ironically  have never had a vegetable garden while living in this house. This week I decided to plant one. Until two years ago, Simon worked for Debbie (our daughter-in-law, now moved to Kwa Zulu Natal) who always served vegetables straight from the garden to the table. So Simon knows how to cultivate a successful vegetable patch and prepared a section behind our garages just for this purpose. We've planted gem squash. carrots, tomatoes (two varieties) green beans, lettuce and chives. We also have two varieties of pumpkin planted in a sunny spot in my ornamental garden.  

The prepared beds are ready to be planted with vegetable seeds

Simon makes furrows for the seeds

Emily, who'd just hung the washing on the windy drier,  looks on while Simon prepares the vegetable beds

Emily discusses the location of the seed-planting with Simon while Angie looks on

John joined the preparation of the vegetable planting. (David continued with his task in the flower garden, although I think he was itching to join us.) John brought thorn branches and cut them to size. Once Simon had planted the seeds, John created a barricade around the entire vegetable garden to discouraged Angie and the other two dogs from trampling the beds