The first egg from the new chookies !Temperatures this week:
Lowest Min 14.4C
Lowest Max 29.3C
Highest Max 34C
No Recorded Rainfall
Lowest Min 14.4C
Lowest Max 29.3C
Highest Max 34C
No Recorded Rainfall
What's the weather been like in the garden?
Summer returned this week with temps a bit too warm for Autumn!
Propagation:
Potting up:
Parcel
Silverbeet
Brocolli Nutri Bud
Violets Blue
In the Garden This week:
That first egg!!!
The new chicks were all interested...
...but it was one of the Barnevelders that owned up!Update on those Sweet Potato cuttings:
The cuttings in the bucket of water have lots of roots...
...the ones in the pot are growing well.I think I will need to pot them all up into largish pots
to get them through winter!
Covered up the Broad Beans on Bed 2to keep the locusts off.
The curtain over the greens on Bed 3
is keeping most of the locusts offbut probably needs something more permanent
So far the beet trio in Bed 5,Golden Beetroot, Silverbeet and Mangelwurzels,
have been left alone and have settled in well!
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.
Capsicum- Hungarian Yellow Wax***121g
Eggplant- Casper***143g
Eggplant- Long Purple***182g
Zucchini- Golden***511g
Zucchini- Black***433g
Apple- Cox's Orange Pippin***2695g
Apple- Jonathon***80g
Peaches***1352g
Rockmelon***281g
Eggs
13 from the Farmyard Ferals
1 from the new chicks
To see how the various Garden areas fit on our half acre block check out the newest Map of our place HERE
They're a lovely colour Barnie eggs,aren't they. I just put some in the incubator with a couple of lovely green araucana eggs. Can't wait to see them hatch.
ReplyDeleteMangelwhats!! Sounds fascinating but what on earth is it!? The new beds all look very lovely by the way. Thanks again and again for your beautiful blog. Cheerio - Katja
ReplyDeleteOh wow Greenfumb
ReplyDeleteYou will end up with a rainbow of egg shells with that combination!!! Good luck with your hatchings.
Ha Katja
I'll pop up a post about the mangelwurzels tomorrow!
Just wonder if my kids will actually eat green eggs, they're funny like that.
ReplyDeleteForgot to say thanks for the tip on Ceylon spinach, I have a couple of plants coming on nicely now. :-)
Ah Green Eggs and Ham!
ReplyDeleteSam I am...
I havent done any rooting of the sweet potato creepers yet. I thought of waiting a while more since I think they grow really fast and I wont have enough room for them when winter comes. I am thinking of storing the propagated cuttings in pots in our garage since I have no hot house.
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