Feeding Time

usual strength usual food

Onions

There is a gap in the onion patch so time to plant some new ones. In the planting chamber went 10 each of onion, red onion, leek, and spring onion.

There is also a gap in the spinach section so it was re-planted with fresh seeds (last of the packet). A few lettuce seeds went in at the same time, again in gaps in the rows.

Finally, harvested seeds from the rhubarb plant, seperated them, dried them over night, and planted several in pots in the green room. I'm told they might not come true because they come from a probable cross-breed, but lets see!

Inside Tomatoes

Some plants are determinant, others (like these?) indeterminate. Determinant plants grow to a determined size and indeterminant just keep growing. An estimate of the height of the tall one is 8 feet.






Flowers are a very distinctive shape and a fantastic yellow. Note the tiny tomatoes growing on the vine.

And larger ones too. Although still green, these will (hopefully) ripen on the vine. I'm told vine-ripened tomatoes taste fantastic by comparison to artificially ripened shop kinds.

Red, White, and... Yellow!

Red carrots really are red. Yellow carrots really are yellow. White turnips are white too. The red carrots taste better than the yellow ones. Garden salad for lunch, lettuce, carrot and turnips fresh from the garden. Excellent!

Cat and Rabbit

Returning from a two week trip an inspection of the vege-patch revealed the rabbit's favourite dinner - young cauliflower plants. Total devastation - nearly all those planted this season have been eaten to the ground by the rabbit. The cat seems to have befriended the rabbit - so much for the cat's hunting ability! Last season's cauliflower have survived so there should still be a harvest this season.

Food for Thought

20 lm fertalizer to 4 litres of water. A couple of days early, but this upcoming weekend it has to be done on Saturday.

Brassica Harvest

Planted some seeds 100 coloured carrots (kaiotes), also white turnips (kaiotes) and black radish. But first made space and this time remembered to take some photos.

Black Radish (66 days) look black when wet and photographed.

Turnips that were planted last year that sprang up and grew well.

White turnips started to flower so I dug some up, and thined out the others.

Radish Taste Test

Well I should have taken a photograph, but didn't. Pulled two of the black radishes only to discover one was white and the other grey. They were long and slim, about the length of my hand and and about a broad as a finger. After a clean under the tap a taste test of the grey one suggested it was completely tasteless - a good bite revealed this was not the case. This must have been the hottest radish I ever ate, after a few seconds I was gaping for water. The white radish was not as hot but still excellent.

Bunnies

There's an escaped black and white rabbit that has started to hang out in the patch. So far it has eaten 3 purple cauliflower plants to the ground. The SPCA know the animal, it has, apparently, proven hard to catch. Lets hope it does not destroy this year's hard work.

Anyone know how to catch a farrile rabbit?