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Seeds planted in the glasshouse – Round 2

20 Thursday Aug 2026

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75 trays of seeds:

Cucumber
7.5 Mini Munch & Richmond Green Apple
4 Double Yield
1 Richmond Green Apple
0.5 Burpless

Corn
3 Breakthrough F1 & Honey and Cream F1
3 Johnsons Miracle Sweet
1 Honey and Cream F1

Capsicum
6 Californian Wonder & Gilboa Orange & Golden Marconi

Zucchini
10 Blackjack & Long Florence & Tromboncino

Tomatoes
4 Red Cherry
4 Black Cherry
2 Tommy Toe
1.5 Rainbow mix

Eggplant
6 Black Beauty

Beetroot
2 Early Wonder

Chilli
2 Padron

Flowers
5 Marigold
3 Zinnia & Poppy
2 Everlasting Daisy
2 Rock Daisy

6.5 Spring Meadow mix

Seeds planted in the glasshouse – Round 1

16 Sunday Aug 2026

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68 trays of seeds:

Cucumber
7.5 Mini Munch & Richmond Green Apple
4 Double Yield
0.5 Burpless

Corn
3 Breakthrough F1 & Honey and Cream F1
3 Johnsons Miracle Sweet

Capsicum
6 Californian Wonder & Gilboa Orange & Golden Marconi

Zucchini
10 Blackjack & Long Florence & Tromboncino

Tomatoes
4 Red Cherry
2 Black Cherry
2 Tommy Toe
1.5 Rainbow mix

Eggplant
6 Black Beauty

Beetroot
2 Early Wonder

Chilli
2 Padron

Flowers
5 Marigold
3 Zinnia & Poppy
6.5 Spring Meadow mix

Lettuce seed planted

07 Saturday Feb 2026

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Testing out the Glasshouse to raise seeds during Summer. Melbourne weather has been up and down more than usual – 18 degrees one day, 30 degrees the next.

So much Basil means one thing… Pesto!

24 Saturday Jan 2026

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🥵 What we didn’t count on was a 40 degree day

😅 Four of us started harvesting at 9.30am and finally left at 2pm

🌿 23 jars of Pesto safely packed in the fridge

State of the (Shakespeare Grove) Basil plots

11 Sunday Jan 2026

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Stolen: Sunflowers

04 Sunday Jan 2026

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Sadly, around 10% of the Sunflowers planted in the beds on Chaucer Street have been nicked (in one case, by a partner of a plotholder, who said “but they’re for the community”). Posted in RISK Facebook Group 4th Jan 2026.

Summer 25/26 spare plot update

03 Saturday Jan 2026

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2 Black Cherry Tomatoes, 3 Red Cherry Tomatoes – 1 stolen, others close to harvesting
4 Beetroot – eaten (delicious)
1 Cos Lettuce – eaten
2 Buttercrunch Lettuce – died (too close to cucumbers)
3 Biet Alpha Cucumbers – 2 died, others have loads of baby cucumbers
2 Spacemaster Cucumbers – pulled out one plant, other cucumbers have bitter skin
2 Blackjack Zucchinis – transplanted one into main plot

Summer 25/26 plot update

03 Saturday Jan 2026

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Space for self-seeded tomatoes – as expected
Sweet & Thai Basil – as expected
2 Black Cherry, 2 Red Cherry, 3 Cherry Roma tomatoes – 1 stolen, others close to harvesting
4 Buttercrunch lettuce – 2 survived, still harvesting leaves
Dwarf Green Beans (from seed)

State of (all 3) Basil plots

03 Saturday Jan 2026

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Chickens sitting on a clothesline (if you’re like me, you didn’t know they did this)

23 Tuesday Dec 2025

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