Sew the seeds and scatter?...

OK I'm pushing on with my own personal 'wanties' for this year!

Chooks are still looking good to be here with us at the start of February (fingers crossed and all that)

So onto another long term aim...

grow your own.

Our garden is fully south facing, very hot and sunny in summer but as we are located on the edge of a small hill we get a LOT of wind.

Patio is fully in sun most of the day and strawberries and tomatoes have done well on there in past, plan is to put them onto shelves to keep them above chook height and the shelving will make an easy frame to attach net to if we need to? (that's the theory anyway)

I would like to grow

strawberries

tomatoes

onions

carrots 

butternut squash

pumpkins (for Halloween)

Now that all sounds reasonable to me, but we have a very small garden that will soon be home to that gals and must leave a bit of room for the kiddos to play out in etc.

I have 3 of these from a failed attempt at growing potatoes a few years back

Now Im hoping I can grow carrots, onions and garlic in those.  They move around quite easily and I think we could if needed make a simple cane frame to go around them for netting if needed

Strawberries and tomatoes I was planning on growing in gro bags on patio (as I mentioned above)

Pumpkins can grow on the old flower bed/wall next to fence to neighbours  - very easy to keep chooks and kiddos away from them

and that will just leave a place to find to put the squash?

Absolutely NO IDEA yet where to put these...off to check Grow Your Own Veg - Carol Klein to see what's recommended!

I figure that if I put my plans out here in the open arena then there is more chance that I wont wimp out...we'll see, we'll see!