Temperatures this week:
Lowest Min 10.3C
Lowest Max 28C
Highest Max 35.8C
No Recorded Rainfall
Lowest Min 10.3C
Lowest Max 28C
Highest Max 35.8C
No Recorded Rainfall
What's the weather been like in the garden?
It tried to rain on Monday but nothing fell in the rain gauge. The cooler temperatures were welcome but have been steadily on the rise all week. Saturday brought humidity once again as areas to the north of us had heavy rain. This is the last week of Summer in Australia and cooler weather is forecasted for the coming week!
Propagation:
Seeds:
Broad Beans Aquadulce and Peruvian Emerald
Planted into Bed 2 in the Main Vegetable Garden
Potting up:
Echinacea Echinacea purpurea
Chamomile Dyers Anthemis tinctoria
White Correa Correa alba
Creeping Boobialla Myoporum parvifolium
Division:
Aloe Vera Aloe vera barbadensis
The divided and re-potted Aloe Vera.It was looking a bit sad due to neglect.
In the Garden This week:
The netting was taken off the plum tree and the plums harvested. Some of these were turned into more Plum Sauce while others were stewed and frozen for deserts!
That netting is now covering the Jonathon Apple tree where the fruit is developing well.The new chooks are busy scratching around the base looking for grubs and bugs!
Bed 2 in the Main Vegetable Garden has been cleared of Roma Tomatoes which had come to the end of their productive lives. The mulch on the bed was moved aside and the soil lightly hoed. An early planting of Broad Beans is now in residence under a light covering of mulch.
Elsewhere in the Fruit Orchardthe Nashi fruits are nearly ripe!
Weekly Harvest Tally:
Doesn't include Greens fed to the chooks on a daily basis or herbs picked for use in the kitchen for cooking or tea making.
Amaranth- Leaf***53g
Capsicum- Hungarian Yellow Wax***28g
Carrots- Chantenay Red-cored***262g
Eggplant- Casper***293g
Eggplant- Long Purple***276g
Parsnip- Hollow Crown***251g
Silverbeet- Rainbow Mix***43g
Tomato- Ida Gold***13g
Tomato- Roma***166g
Zucchini- Golden***838g
Zucchini- Black***299g
Grapes- Black Sultana***2735g
Figs***603g
Plums***4303g
Rockmelon***303g
Strawberry***27g
Eggs
17 from the Farmyard Ferals
To see how the various Garden areas fit on our half acre block check out the newest Map of our place HERE
Wow didnt know you even have aloe vera in the garden..When do you pull up the pups for replanting into smaller pots? When I tried doing so, the pups died instead.
ReplyDeleteVery very nice picture of the nashi fruit! Wish i could sink my teeth into it hehe...
Hi SavvyMummy
ReplyDeleteThe Aloe Vera is growing in a pot.
It gets a bit too hot for it in the sun and then in winter it's too cold with our frosts so in a pot I can move it.
This year I put it in the shade under a tree...er and forgot about it!
When I found it last week the pot was full of ants so I took it out the pot and soaked it in a bucket of water to get rid of the ants.
While I had it out of the pot I removed the pups which had quite well established root systems so they potted up easily!
Except for the tiny baby one which might not make it! :o
Hi Scarecrow, you are coming to the end of your summer and we are hoping one is on the way to us!We have had a beautiful Spring this year,usually our Jan, Feb and March are dull grey and wet but this year we have clear blue skies and sunny days. The nights are cold and frosty so planting out is not advisable as yet, onions and autumn planted garlic are the only survivors and this years seedlings are at home on windowsills and in the greenhouse.
ReplyDeleteStrawberry plants over here have an optimum of 3 years harvesting also, they will produce after that but not a lot.
Here in the USA, our gardening season will just be starting soon. We're buying our seeds, and planning what will go where. I'm doing a challenge to all gardeners - no matter what hemisphere they are in. Check out: http://tinyurl.com/yd874hr ... thanks! Vikki at www.vikkisverandah.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteScruffy the wattle bird?? sounds like he should have a TV series named after him! I had no idea they existed, my world has been made larger today, thank you. As you are having your last day of Summer, I think we almost had Spring today. Sunshine and nearly 10 degrees! I nearly didn't have to wear a coat!
ReplyDeleteI just stumbled upon your blog and spent some time going through the posts. It's so, so wonderful to see a beautiful garden growing! Mine is still covered in knee high snow.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure I'll be back often! :)
Hi Peggy
ReplyDeleteHope your frosts end soon you can get planting! We often have that problem here in early Spring so I know how you feel.
Thanks for the info about the strawberries. I think it has more to do with the modern breeding of the plants as I'm sure when I was a kid we had strawberry plants that produced good crops for years!
Hi Vikki
ReplyDeleteAn interesting challenge you have but I'll be unable to participate.
You don't know how much I just spent on my Garlic order for this season! I intend to grow this variety on to ensure future supplies as our state quarantine laws are making it increasingly difficult (and expensive) to get good planting stock from interstate where all the interesting (and old) varieties are grown.
I think it is vitally important to use non hybrid seeds to ensure the development of healthy plants fully adapted top our local climatic conditions.
I would encourage you to read this post from The Path To Freedom people about the state of your seed companies in USA (and increasingly around the world).
Ha Matron!
ReplyDeleteScruffy is quite a character. We have many birds unique to Australia as you have many that we don't see.
Oh I hope it warms up for you soon you seem to have had such a bleak winter in the UK this year.
Hi Catalina
ReplyDeleteThanks for dropping by.
Sounds like you've had a very cold winter as well! Our winter is on the way but I doubt I'll ever see snow up to my knees in my garden ;)
Gee those aloe vera plants are looking great. Your nashi looks lovely. The birds got all but eight of ours. I ended up putting the white netting bags from Green Harvest on our back pergola grapes. We have been eating the grapes and giving some away. We netted out fig tree last week. Just in time. I ate the first two today. Sweet as jam.
ReplyDeletewow - i stared at the nashi fruit for like 5 minutes. hopefully i can have my own fruits like that.
ReplyDeleteHi Donna
ReplyDeleteThe birds have been real pests this year. We have to net our trees early to stop them getting the fruit while it is still green!
We have shared the grapes with the birds this year as they (the sultana grapes) have reverted back to having seeds in them again! Last years crop didn't have one with seeds so I'll have to investigate just what has gone wrong this year.
Oh Ches
ReplyDeleteI hope it won't be too long before you get some yummy fruits of your own. Be warned though it will mean you will not want to eat shop bought fruit again!
Home grown is sooooo sweeeeet!