Category: Growing
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It was time to say goodbye to our Summer crops. Although the tomatoes, beans and capsicum were still producing a little fruit, we wanted to give the soil a few weeks to relax before we launched our next attack of seeds and seedlings. So out came everything (aside from the our capsicum) and into the…
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Waiting, waiting, waiting… For a while it seemed that we would only ever be eating pumpkins and zucchinis. Thankfully by late-February we were starting to harvest our plants every few days, with tomatoes, beans and capsicum starring at dinner. Having planted some lettuce seedlings in the gaps left by the zucchini plants, we were harvesting…
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Finally, our plants have started to come into their own. Streaming over the sides of the crate, there are clear signs that we’ll be making pumpkin soup, roast pumpkin and even perhaps a pie (for our Canadian friends) sometime soon. And when they decide to grow, they don’t mess about. With the amount of sun…
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I admit, the tomato stakes were pretty haphazard. Planted in a state of plant emergency when it was clear our one plant was spreading all over the ground rather than growing up, it’s become necessary to give it (and the patch) a spring clean. So with a bit of help from master Carpenter Craig, we…
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It’s been 2 months since we planted our one and only tomato plant, and all we can think is C’Mon Dude! All around us patches with various types of small tomatoes: cherry, grape and pear – all of them are starting to really bear fruit, and heaps of it. Whilst our plant is clearly healthy,…
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During December it seems that our zucchinis are becoming masters of the patch, easily dwarfing our carrots, beans and even the pumpkin plants. Even though we culled some plants in November, there are still four plants going great guns. We’re starting to wonder if we shouldn’t have planted less…
