Small garlic test harvest.

Successful I'd say, pulled up a few that were in the way of more parsnip seed sowing. They look very promising, these hadn't started to flower as yet. Fat stalks near the bulb did not necessarily mean the fattest bulbs either.



I pulled them out and brushed the dirt off and left them to dry in the sun for the afternoon.
Keen to grow lots next year, need about 60 for a year, plus they look great plaited and hanging around keeping the vampires at bay.
:)

edit on Monday:
Just took a photo of one of the garlic flowers that are still growing, it looks like a small version of the bulbs down below as it struggles out of it's case.



p.s. the smaller varieties of tomatoes are just now beginning to go red!

Wednesday Wonder!

We killed the bean!



Harvest time for the monster, cut the string and lowered it to the ground and removed the beans in the shade.



Blanched and snap froze bags full and podded the largest oldest ones, the beans weren't black, they were



Yes! Food of the gods, blue food!
(I think that may have been some line in National Lampoon)

Sowed a row of radishes on Monday, read of the wonders of roasted ones, so we shall see. A new coriander plant and a new lot of low green beans have raised their little bent heads, new rocket plants are pickable. The zucchini plant has started flowering and setting fruit at the other end. Twice the number of young ones. Must be due to the flowering Thrive I've been giving everything.
Capsicums are fat and green with lots of flowers forming and the chillies are now both in flower. Just as well they are quite expensive at the moment.
The garlic flower heads are starting to stand up and are splitting open, getting close to harvest when the leaves die down to about a third.



Birds are getting the odd plum on the tree now, time to eat them methinks.
(The plums, not the birds)
:)

A quiet and peacful day

Everything is growing well, had a few of the early tomatoes so far, though once they really start going we're going to have quite a glut. Yum!
Picking a perfect yellow courgette every day now, from one plant, just about right really. The chilli plants have shown the finest little flowers now, very shy they are.
Garlic flowers are starting to form, most mysterious things they seem



The plums are starting to look really lovely and colourful, the odd one has dropped off so we've been able to have a small preview taste. The half that was ripe was wonderful. :)
update photo of the same two as before:



View looking south west



And the rainbow beet still makes a lovely photo,



there is a new lot of plain old silverbeet starting to take hold so we will have a good supply through winter.

Dug up all the rest of the spuds today, got about 7 kg in all, don't know if that's good or bad but it all looks quite impressive.



Have sown beans in their spot, a 3x3 patch of bean 'Top Crop' (phaseolus vulgaris).

January the 3rd already, where has the year gone?

Wow, that was a great Christmas and New Year, family and friends to stay and sun and beaches and food and drink and everything! And some gardening!
:)

Just picked some of the garlic, it's getting useable now though still quite small, it needs to flower and die down before it's full formed I gather. Looks nice though



We've been having lots of beans and potatoes and zucchinis as well now, yum.
The zucchini is just a huge vegetable growing sex machine, the huge male and female flowers are amazing to see wide open before they curl up and shut themselves up all coy and private.



And last but not least, here's a rare photo of me (taken by best daughter Nasturtium Gnome) picking beans from the bean tree!



It's just started to rain now so everything will get another good growth spurt on, it's all good.