Category: Vegetables
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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…
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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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…and welcome to the Year of the Snake. Today the Patch had some visitors, wishing us all prosperity and luck for the next year.
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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…
