Sliver & Bite Blog

With the garden beginning to gain a little height it was time to guide & train the snow peas, tomatoes and Lebanese cucumbers. With some thin stakes and malleable wire, I fed the wire over the stakes that met the garden bed then pokes the snow peas that were beginning to crawl along the top of the garden bed to the wire. Snow peas starting to climb The tomatoes and Lebanese cucumbers will be secured to the mesh, so they do not topple over when they begin to bear fruit, I bega

After 3 days of rain, I looked out my window and noticed half of my basil was gone. There were round balls the size of whole peppercorns on the basil leaves. All other herbs and vegetables had been spared for now. After a little google photo search I concluded it was caterpillars. I hadn’t noticed any motion bar the odd cricket which I relocated to heaven. Obviously keeping the Sliver and Bite garden organic I resorted to placing bruised garlic cloves on the garden bed. Befor

DAY FIVE Today saw an overcast day so I am going to ease up on the watering today as I don't want to drown the soil. When checking the carrot trough I saw some sprouts. The carrots were sewn 14 days using a seed tape. Check out the sprouts to the right. UPDATE: They weren't carrots it was the straw seeds (insert eye roll here). I will revisit planting the carrots as i dug them too deep should be 5mm not 5cm under the soil. Oops New growth?