Hail after planting

I could not believe it today, after planting out all the warm season crops yesterday it went mad and hailed this afternoon!
Luckily it was brief and the stones were quite small and nothing seems to have been damaged so far. Then half an hour later the sun was back out.
We harvested all of the silver beet that featured in yesterdays blog post, there's tons of it, and we have another bed in the old vege patch. We'll have to blanch some of it and make some bags of frozen ready for shepherds' pies at short notice.
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I planted some hailstone (yes) and salad crunch radish seeds and three rows of top crop bean seeds. Just about run out of room now.

Planting day

Couldn't wait any longer, sposed to wait till Labour Weekend but have gone mad and planted out 2 tomatoes, all the capsicum seedlings as well as the Zorro courgette and a newly bought basil!
The courgette in theory is the normal green one this time we hope. Got a grafted truss tomato and a grafted cherry so we should have lots of tasty readily useable toms in no time. As I dug the last capsicum seedling into it's hole the rain started falling. Perfect!
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New tomato in the foreground, small capsicums in the bed on the left



Madly abundant silver beet in the foreground



And Hazel approves of Mr Perry's coffee sack



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Warm spring day

Lovely day. Painted primer on the sanded bits of the house today.



Also replaced the trellising on the pea frame, they didn't seem to want to hang on to the wood. Got some chicken wire and gently transferred the tendrils on to it. Hopefully they'll go whoosh. Should be better for ventilation and light as well.




Cleared up where the tomatoes and capsicums will be planted next weekend. Gave the beds some fertilizer as well.

Plums are fattening, not many though...



The long red capsicum seedlings are looking happy and ready to go



A veritable forest of garlic



The front lawn needs mowing but it's far too pretty with all the buttercups...