gentle early summer/late spring weekend

Did many good deeds, the planting of red sails lettuce, a nice small french tarragon (so good with chicken) a blackjack courgette, 22 globe beetroot and 26 red onions.
Took out the lilly pilly tree by the table, the garden seems twice as big.
Put up a sail over the bathroom window. 

Pulled the last of the leeks so there will be some nice rissottos soon.

A pick of early garlic some very early chillies and some oregano, a Baldric sort of Christmas photo

sweet corn up to stick height

Anti blackbird hats over the beetroot and onion seedlings

Beans looking good, about to flower. Have given toms and beans etc flowering and fruiting thrive.
Lilly pilly tree gone...

Anti sun hat on the zucchini plant in the left foreground.

Had a pleasant afternoon with a mum, a dad, a sister, an aunt and an uncle, a few beers and some cheese. Nice!

Bed extention

Pulled out the tangelo tree today, it went mad with new growth and had not a flower in sight. Sill thing grew about 6 fruit and they were barely edible., despite giving it all it needed as far as fertilizer etc etc.
So have been able to extend the garden bed currently full of sweet corn, there is now a nice large clear area for one zucchini plant. They are always good on the bbq.

Dug up the rest of the beetroot, they were nice and large!

and had a look at one of the potato plants, only got 5 decent sized ones, obviously far too early as there were many tiny ones still on the roots. These black ones are very nice for roasting and baking, they have a marbled purple interior.

Sowed some new rocket seeds. Have placed paving stones around the bases of the tomato plants to warm up during the day and hold the heat as well as trapping moisture under them. Sound like a good scheme! :)

Garlic testing

Couln't resist it any longer and just had to pull a garlic out to see what was happening at the important end. Most pleased to see a good forming of cloves so it will all be good in a month or two.

 

The first truss of tomatoes are starting to get to look like tomatoes! There are some good laterals coming now that will form the rest of the plant.

Pulled up some small fat carrots tonight to pop in a lamb stew, with spuds baking in the bbq.

November niceness

Pulled a lot of the beetroot plants and ended up with a nice bucket full of beets.

 The parsnips also were uprooted, they ones that were left were not the best so we will make better use of their space. The garden looks a bit empty now but I must resist the temptation to plant things in the gaps as the tomatoes (hopefully) will soon take up almost all the spare area.

Went mad and added a new tool to the garden, so far it has functioned brilliantly