Category: Veggie Growing

Hello gardeners! Welcome to Ozzy’s garden! This post is about Bridal veil falls, Raglan, in a wonderful forest, by a beautiful river. Enjoy reading!

Bridal veil is at a height of 180 feet, with a ten minute walk from top to bottom, with a total of 261 steps. There are four viewing platforms, one on the top of the falls, looking down on the brim of the falls, one a few minutes walk down overlooking the edge of the edge of the falls. As you walk down the steps into the lower half, stop at the mid-way view point, showing the cascading water fly by, then make your way to the bottom bridge, where you see the landing of this spectacular waterfall.

I hope you have learned a lot about this beautiful waterfall, and I hope you get to go one day.

Hello Gardeners,

Sorry I’ve not been doing posts lately.

This year, 2021, I am opening a Pumpkin Growing Competition. Anyone who wants to be in the competition must leave a comment on this post. The rules are simple, you must grow a pumpkin from seed (ideally from the Ozzy’s Garden seeds I sent at Christmas) and share your photos with me over the summer. The person who grows the biggest pumpkin will be crowned the Pumpkin King or Queen on 31st October 2021.

I’ve already planted my seeds on the 21st March and they’ve been growing on the windowsill, this week all the seedlings have started to appear.

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As of today, I have 29 Pumpkin Seedlings! In a few weeks, when I know which ones are going to be strong pumpkins, I will be doing a Pumpkin Plant Giveaway for anyone who wants to join the competition.

Top Tip: Plant bright coloured plants to attract more bees. I’ve planted Nasturtium seeds for when the Pumpkin Plants go into the ground. Here’s a picture of them.

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Now my Pumpkin Seedlings are getting bigger, I carefully moved them to some bigger pots. You have to be very careful when moving them and I would suggest you add some supports for the Pumpkin Plants to grow against.

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When replanting the Pumpkins, take a look at the roots. Against the mud, they look like thin white worms!! There should be a few roots dangling from the bottom, looking to find food in their new pots.

Good Luck and Keep Growing!

Early in Spring I planted Cucumber seeds into my plant tray and put it in my room. I sprayed water on them everyday to help them grow.

I waited for 3 weeks until the shoots started to grow. The cucumber plant grew towards the sun, so I had to turn the tray around 90 degrees every two days.

We built a climbing frame for the cucumbers.

Due to the hot weather I had to water them lots through the summer. In June they had already reached the top of the climbing frame. I harvested my first Cucumber in July and Mummy and Daddy have been eating them at lunch time.

Cucumber plants are fast growers, so watch out!

In my garden we grew beetroot, it started of in the greenhouse in March.

Then when they were big enough we planted them in the veggie table in May and watered them every day, and then it was time to harvest.

First we peeled and washed the beetroot. Then we cut 400 grams of the beetroot and mixed with a big bar of chocolate, mixing it until it was all smooth. After that it was ready to be cooked.

Recipe: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/beetroot-brownies

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They tasted all sticky and chocolatey. My little sister made a mess eating them!

I started by getting big branches and cutting little ones off, it took 2 days. Next I built a wigwam that lasted 30 minuets. Then we planted the nasturtiums, it took 37 minutes. We grew nasturtiums to attract the bees.

I planted 12 pumpkin seeds on my window sill and watered them everyday. When they were big enough we planted them in patches.

In April and may 2020 we watered them, fed them and helped them climb. In June and early July we saw boy and girl flowers. And now we have 7 pumpkins.

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We have 2 different types of pumpkin plants.

Here is a my pumpkin gallery

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In September we harvested the biggest pumpkin to stop it falling off the vine. It was really big and really orange.

Check back soon for my Pumpkin Pie recipe.

welcome to ozzys garden I am going to take photos of all the projects in my garden.