This is a photo sent in to me from Jim Henderson. I love to see what other people are doing in their organic gardens. As you can see, Jim’s just harvested a great crop of healthy red onions. In the background he has some beautiful looking pumpkins coming on. That looks like enough pumpkin to [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, vegetables on March 4th, 2008 | No Comments »
Now what do you do with so many little tomatoes? I had to pick these trusses when I had my big clean up in the veggie patch on the weekend. The tomato bushes had become so straggly and bent over with the weight of all these trusses (there’s more than in the photo). So I’ve [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, vegetables on February 27th, 2008 | No Comments »
OK, I talked about this Armenian cucumber (heirloom variety) I grew this season in a recent post and how I would give it a taste test review. Well as you can see this one is almost gone ’cause it’s absolutely delicious. It has quite a few seeds, but they don’t bother me – like any [...]
Filed under: Heirloom, vegetables on February 18th, 2008 | No Comments »
Just a quick note today to remind you how important it is to really take good care of your emerging seeds. I’ve had some seeds in seed raising mix for a few weeks. They were coming on nicely – not all had come through, but the majority. Then I had to work away from home [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, vegetables on February 17th, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s that time of year here in South Australia when I’m drying annuals to last through the winter. With only a few weeks left of summer it’s the perfect time to be drying herbs. I picked a large bunch of golden oregano about a week ago. All I do is bunch it all together like [...]
Filed under: Herbs, Uncategorized, vegetables on February 15th, 2008 | No Comments »
The photo below shows the very healthy root system of this leek from my organic garden. I don’t bother to mound the soil up around my leeks, because I hate the grit that has to be washed out before using it in the kitchen. So I just plant it, feed and water and in a [...]
Filed under: vegetables on February 12th, 2008 | No Comments »
I like to grow enough butternut pumpkins to last throughout the year. I love how they ramble through the garden. We love pumpkin soup through winter and roast pumpkin, so I usually put in 10 or so plants, which provides enough for us and a few to give to friends. They are so easy to [...]
Filed under: vegetables on February 7th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I like surprises, so I always include a few things I’ve never grown before in my planting plan for the summer season. This year I’ve grown some heirloom tomatoes (my favourite is the Tigerella) and an heirloom cucumber that I grew from seed called “Armenian”. The packet says the cucumbers can grow 60 – 90cm [...]
Filed under: Heirloom, vegetables on February 4th, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I decided to grow a mix of heirloom tomatoes (I like surprises), 6 plants of cherry tomatoes and 12 bigger varieties mostly for home made sauce. The plants for saucing tomatoes I planted outside of my plot, because space is limited, so they’re growing in very sandy soil. The other varieties are in the “good” [...]
Filed under: vegetables on November 22nd, 2007 | No Comments »
WOW! The hot weather’s really moved in. There’s a far off cool change forcast, so let’s hope we get it. There are some plants in the organic garden that you just can’t afford to withhold watering if you want to enjoy eating them. The two that spring to mind are lettuce and apple cucumbers. Without [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, vegetables on November 17th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
