What size area needed for vege garden? As long as a piece of string?

[briggsy's girl]

Garlic definitely takes ages. About 10 months from planting to maturity from memory. We plant it for the double benefit (we plant under roses and fruit trees to keep aphids at bay). We had some old knuckles of garlic from when we bought some at market. The guy said if it started to sprout to chuck it in the garden. So we have. I haven't seen aphids in the yard in forever. And we have fresh garlic over winter from the previous springs plantings.

We compaion plant where we can (things like marigolds near the tomatoes) and avoid any chemicals to keep bugs etc at bay. But we have a snail problem so we do use snail bait around the outside of the garden. And we fertilise with chook poo and Charlie carp. Haven't been able to afford the set up for a worm farm yet. When we can do that we should be able to eliminate the Charlie carp. Chooks are a no go here though. Would love to be able to get them picking through the garden as it is dug up! Save a lot of work prepping soil lol