07 Saturday Feb 2026
Posted in Seeds, Planting, Vegetables, Veg Out, Glasshouse, Seedlings
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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.
01 Sunday Jun 2025
Loaded up the plot next to us with Dwarf bean seeds (will interesting to see if they have run out of juice, or were they just eaten by birds in our plot), left over Green Feast peas & Coriander.
25 Friday Apr 2025
Not much luck with seeds this winter. Even with a second try, next year we will stick to seedlings (if we repeat this year’s cover of sugar cane mulch).
We tried Beetroot (okay), Carrots (not bad), Dwarf beans (3 plants, 1 died after being trampled), Sugar & Snap peas (4 plants).
18 Saturday Jan 2025
Posted in Growing, Tomatoes, Vegetables
02 Thursday Jan 2025
Posted in Growing, Vegetables
24 Tuesday Dec 2024
Posted in Growing, Veg Out, Vegetables
07 Saturday Dec 2024
Posted in Growing, Vegetables
07 Sunday Apr 2013
It’s officially Autumn. Cool nights and brisk days have arrived. There is excitement around the Patch, with pretty much everyone planting new crops – walking around the crates is a guessing game of what-do-you-think-is-that-seedling?
On our list this season:
Snap sugar peas (handy to have our tomato trellis already installed)
Snow peas (Lisa likes them loads)
Lettuce (Cos)
Carrots (yes, we’re trying them again)
Chives
Baby spinach
Mystery interloper:
Kale – two plants have mysteriously arrived in our patch. Unknown source. We think we’ll eat them anyhow.
The Big Lesson #1 – Don’t plant too much stuff
The mystery plant, Kale (in front of Craig, not where he is pointing)
New plants on the block
20 Wednesday Mar 2013
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 them too.
All in all we are pretty happy with our first few months.
(Weather note: According the Bureau of Meteorology, daytime maximum temperatures were much warmer than those usually experienced and averaged 27.4°C – departure from normal 2.1°C. Total rainfall for the past summer – Dec 2012 to Feb 2013 – was 108 mm, this being slightly less than that usually recorded)
Take a look at a few of our harvests…
Almost ready…
Pumpkin flowers, Black Russian Tomato (green), Green Beans, Pumpkin
Black Russian Tomatoes
Pretty much a meal!
A bagful of goodies
14 Thursday Feb 2013
Posted in Growing, Pumpkins, Vegetables
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.
Pumpkins: Exhibit A
And when they decide to grow, they don’t mess about. With the amount of sun and rain they’ve been getting, I would estimate they grow easily an inch every few days. Somewhat surprisingly, they seem quite happy to grow all over the concrete carpark flooring, not caring the least bit that the surface isn’t soil. As long as their stem is watered, they’re happy chappies.
Pumpkins: Exhibit B
From Little Seeds Big Things Grow 