I forgot to harvest these Red Onions in the Pathside Edge Bed in the Kitchen Garden. They have re-sprouted tender new growth which I pick (just the leaves) and use as Green Onions in salads etc.Easier than establishing spring onions.
Temperatures this week:
Lowest Min 7C
Lowest Max 24C
Highest Max 29.2C
No Recorded Rainfall
Lowest Max 24C
Highest Max 29.2C
No Recorded Rainfall
What's the weather been like in the garden?
We had drizzle all day last Sunday but not enough to register a reading in the rain gauge! Since then we have had beautiful clear Autumnal days and the nights are getting cooler.
Daylight saving ends this weekend which tends to mark the end of the hot weather here as we head into winter.
The sacred Weather Charts give us a high chance of rain this week...we shall see!
Propagation:
Planting out:
Garlic Monaro Purple (Italian) from Select Organic
In the Garden This week:
The last of the Casper Eggplants have been pickedand the plants removed from Bed 1.
This will allow for some Silverbeet to be planted
after the soil/compost has been topped up.
The garlic bed with shoots emerging already!
A trench was dug in the ground at the base and next to the Fence Wicking Bed in the Main Vegetable Garden.Into the trench went some old chook manure, then the soil replaced and rock minerals and blood and bone were added.
Inline dripper hose was attached into the watering system. As this has drippers spaced every 15cms a clove of Garlic (Monaro Purple) was placed at each outlet. Easy!
The back Pergola area has been cleared, cleaned and we now have plans for some food growing tubs to be placed in the area. These will hold herbs for the BBQ and greens for inside use. Placed just outside the back door (and Kitchen) they will be easily harvested in any weather.
This Perpetual Spinach plant is now in it's third year......it just keeps coming back! 
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***576g
Eggplant- Casper***530g
Zucchini- Black***806g
Apple- Golden Delicious***2313g
Apple- Jonathon***1512g
Watermelon- Sugarbaby***1526g
Plus a mixture of leafy greens for stirfries and salads including:
Chervil, Garlic Chives, Kale, Lettuce, Mangel-wurzel leaves, Parsley, Perpetual Spinach, Red Choi, Silverbeet, Tatsoi.
Eggs
10 from the Farmyard Ferals
8 from the Barnevelders (2 are now laying)
Thank you everyone for your kind words and thoughts regarding Luckydog.
To see how the various Garden areas fit on our half acre block check out the newest Map of our place HERE
Check out the Autumn/Winter planting plan for 2010 HERE
I'm growing purple monaro too and it's the only variety so far that has sprouted (also silverskin and some ordinary market-bought garlic). Its' lovely to see the shoots poking through the earth so soon!
ReplyDeleteAH lovely onions... I'm having trouble raising any onions at the moment.. I should read more about growing them, I don't really know much, but they're fantastic to have a continuous crop of (I fluked it last year and got a 4 month supply!).
ReplyDeleteI planted out a bed of purple monario up here a week and a half ago.. so far I've had 2/3 sprout up, which is a good sign i suppose.. they're more suited to cooler climates aren't they? well, if so I've got proof they can grow in the tropics hehe :)
Good to hear your garlic is coming up. For the first time last year I actually planted my garlic in the Autumn and it managed a few weeks' growth before Winter. It seems to be going great guns at the moment, fingers crossed!
ReplyDeletei guess that's why they call it perpetual spinach huh? :D
ReplyDeleteHey Funkbunny and Rolley we will have to compare growing notes on the garlic this year!
ReplyDeleteRolley you might be better off trying to grow Shallots or other clumping onions up your way.
Hey Matron
Good luck with your garlic...it's done well to get through that winter you had over there!
Yep Che
I guess that is why it's called that but I've never had any that keeps coming back like this one does :)
How's that for a green thumb? Your plants sprout without you even trying. ;-)
ReplyDeleteHey Chris
ReplyDeleteIt's the only way to garden!!
Making the most of anything that volunteers in the garden that will produce something edible!
Nice onions! I am looking for garlic to plant in my garden too, but all I can find is garlic from China....I'll just have to keep looking.
ReplyDeleteHi Stacey
ReplyDeletePlease don't plant that garlic from China as it has only been cleared for importing as an eating variety NOT planting. We could be spreading some nasty diseases if we plant it. Often it has been treated to stop it from growing too.
The following places online have it available...not many of them will send to SA anymore but you should be OK where you are, otherwise see if you can buy some at an organic market. If its locally grown it should be fine to plant out.
Select Organic
Green Harvest
Diggers Club
There are possibly more but it looks like these places still have stock available.
Well I certainly wouldn't mind if more edible plants "volunteer" to grow in my garden!
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