Tomato Stakes

Daily watering of the Tomato plants - one has started to flower and the other has bud. It looks like tomato stakes are essential, one had toppled under its own weight after a few days. Both now have stakes they are tied to. Both remain in the green room.

Blood! (and Bones)

4 litres of the mixed up fertalizer spread all over the vege patch, applied to leaves and to soil in root areas

Last Night's Dinner (and Tonight Too)

Cauliflower for dinner yesterday, today, and tomorrow too. The first for the season measured 21cm on the longet edge (see photo). These things grow quite well in Dunedin. Be careful not to leave them too long because they flower and go spindley.

Transplant

Took what had been growing in the srouting chamber and planted the outside. This included 6 purple cauliflower, 4 green cauliflower, 9 romanesco brocollo, 1 cauliflower, and 5 brussel sprouts.

Also transplanted 1 pumpkin and 2 squash that had sprouted and were ready to see the garden.

Cauliflower Crop (and tiny turnips)

This cauliflower was planted last year and left over winter. Its in flower and in just a few days will be be dinner!

Two tiny turnips showing that there are, indeed, signs of supper in thus years plantings.

Pumkin and Zucchini and Tomato and Capsicum

Transplanted three pumpkin from the green room into the patch. Also tranaplanted two (I think) zucchini.

Trying tomato in the green room. Two seedling vines, both from Nichols, one sweet-100 cherry tomato the other "Home Harvest Cherry Tomato Sungold Evandale Gardens". Also took the opertunity to plant a capsicum at the same time, again from seedling, "Home Harvest Capsicum Gold Medal Evandale Gardens".

Seeds and Blood and Bones

The weekend's planting took a few days to catch up on but finally got done. 100 mixed coloured carrots (Kaiotes), Black Radish (kaiotes), White Turnips (kaiotes), and regular turnips (seeds saves from last year).

Also another round with the fertilizer. 20 ml of Yates Nitrosol organic blood and bone (NPK 3.3.6) to 4 litres of water spread over the whole vege patch with the garden sprayer. Some applied to soil, the remainder to the leaves.

A look at the crops suggests little white turnips and little regular turnips are growing. Carrots are sprouting so at the least there'll be carrots and turnips. One of the cauliflowers (from last year) is growing flowers so a close eye will be kept on it.

Rhubarb and Squash

Rhubarb has gone to flower, does anyone know if it's possible to harvest the seeds?



Pumpkin, Giant Pumpkin, and Zucchini. These are physically located in the background of the picture above.

Chives or Spring Onions?

Does anyone know the difference between Chives and Spring Onions? These were in the garden when we moved in. They die down over winter but come back in spring. Please, if you can tell the difference, let me know. What ever they are, they taste good!

Brassica Portfolio

Turnips on the left, carrots in the middle, Japanest (Tokyo) turnips on the right. oops, next year the carrots go on the summy side of the turnips!



Last year's cauliflowers in the background, this year's in the foreground. Parsnips behind the cauliflowers.




Black radish with onions in the foreground


Purple cauliflower plants appear to be purple!

Onionesque

The onion and leeks in the planter were moved into the patch. Rows of 6 spring onions, 9 onions, 8 red onions, and 8 leeks were taken from the planter and put into the area dug-over last weekend.

Lettuce (cos) and 2 rows of spinach were planted from seed directly into beds by the onions.

3 Purple cauliflower and 5 brussel sprouts were transplanted into the brassica beds. No luck (at all) with green cauliflower. It looks like green cauliflowers from Kaiotes are bad.

New squash planting. 5 zucchini (Watkins), 2 squash (Yates) and 4 pumpkin (Watkins). Addiionally a seedling tray (2 rows each) of Purple Cauliflower, Green Cauliflower, Romanesco Broccoli, and one row each of Cailiflower and Brussel Sprouts

Organic fertaliser for the first time too.