Garden Update January 2010

The garden has been planted for about 2 months.

Last week I went out hoping for zucchinis and managed to get 3 tiny ones.  This week one was turning into a marrow.  This is todays haul.   There are a couple of stunted ones that were the first ones on two plants but the new ones coming through are great.

Today I bit the bullet and went to sort out the tomatoes.  They have had a sudden growth spurt and really should have been staked a couple of weeks ago.  They now have their first fruits appearing.  YAY!!

I cut up an old t-shirt for ties.

So this is before

And after

The parsley seed I sowed came up but the chives did not.  I bought a punnet.

  The cauliflower is up as is more lettuce.  A cucumber is doing well and some kind of cucurbit has self sown.

 The silverbeet and beetroots are doing well although the beetroot are a little close together.  Radishes are ready for picking. Not long now and I will be able to make a whole meal from the garden! If only we had chooks (they are coming soon I hope)

So here are the 4 beds:  Bed one is the one with the tomatoes. It also has radish, basil, beetroot, capsicum and chillies which are near picking.

Bed two has beans, zucchinis, silverbeet and potatoes.  I think a glut of zucchini is on the way. I hope our neighbours like them! Half of it was compost but is now ready to plant, boy compost breaks down fast in the garden!

Bed three has lettuce, cauliflower, parsley, chives and the self sown wotsit (I'm sure I'll work out what it is soon)  It needs building up before I can plant more.

Here are the lettuce, I'm finding that even 4 planted at a time is too much as they do turn to seed quite suddenly.  I think I'll aim for 2 a fortnight.

And lastly bed 4, it has a lone cucumber because the snails ate the other two (grrrr) and it's the new compost heap. The white stuff is shredded paper, a bit of an experiment.