OK, my vegetable garden is about 10 weeks old now – started from scratch as we built a new raised bed. Everything is looking fantastic, despite the dry weather.
We are already enjoying radish, lettuce, rocket, silverbeet, spring onions, beetroot, zucchini, snow peas and all the herbs. We’ll be cutting broccoli for our next dinner [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on November 26th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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” soil [...]
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 regular [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, vegetables on November 17th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
It’s really starting to warm up here in South Australia. Temperatures forcast for all this week are all in the 30’s – that’s the high 80’s in Fahrenheit.
So it’s time to make things easier for me and better for the vegetable garden. I’ve put in a 10m rubber seepage hose, but I need a lot [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on November 14th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Well the rain’s disappeared again and the days are really starting to warm up. The warmth is great in the garden to get the warm season plants growing vigorously. I took a few photos this morning and it made me realize how important succession planting is.
If you’re not sure what that means, it basically means [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, vegetables on November 9th, 2007 | 1 Comment »