Garden Tales

                                     

                                                                       

This last week I've had a wonderful productive time in my Veggie Garden.

First started with general weed and clean-up and trim of all silver beet, rocket and parsley plants starting to bolt, when I had a huge wheelbarrow full I then dumped it all in the chook-pen and sent the girls into a frenzy!!

Next any spare sections of garden beds were then dug over and compost added.

Next step was to check my garden diary, I started this diary in 2004 to record all garden beds and what I planted in them each season, remembering to rotate crops with one bed sown with a green manure crop. (forgot this year)

I also record rainfall, temperature and dates of crops sown and when produce is harvested and ways of harvesting, eg Garlic, over the years I've been able to work out the best time to plant cloves and when too pull them and dry them with the least amount of loss.

Notes and recipes from friends and items of interest from magazines, blogs and the Weekly Times are also scribbled in where they can fit.

Final Step was to write down which crops are now ready to sow and into which beds, seed packets sorted and then seeds finally planted.

Sunflowers                Corn                   Bush Beans

Climbing Beans          Butter Beans         Perpetual Spinach

Lettuce Cos Verdi

         Little Gem

         Rossa Di Trento

Zucchino Romaneso     Cucumber             Basil

Tomato Yellow Pear                             Capsicum Patio Red

          Mortgage Lifter

Whats been harvested this week:

Asparagus                      Red Onions       Dill

Spinach                         Silver beet         Oregano

Parsley                         Chives              Kale 2 varieties

Broad Beans                  Lettuce 4 varieties

Whats growing along nicely:

Potatoes              Artichoke             Cabbage

Carrots               Beetroot              Rhubarb

White & Red Onions

lettuce seedlings

Tomato seedlings Self sown ?

Whats soon to be harvested:

Large crop of Garlic

                                   

          Alfred came along to work with me one day but the weeding was just too much for him !!