Cucumber

First go with cucumbers this season. This year King's Marketmore Cucumbers. Six seeds went into a tray. With some luck we'll see at least one germinate. In previous years the cucumbers have gone in a little late.

Cat-Fennel

Its not just us humans who love to spend the afternoon in the garden watching the vegies grow. In the background you see the Fennel from last year (it died back over winter but has clearly sprung back for spring).

Planting Out Onions and Turnips

The first batch of Long-Keeper onions went into the patch. Some were left in over the winter, just to see what happened. They survived and continue to grow. You can see here a mix of old and young onions.
The last spaces in the patch are filling up. You see here the brassicas planted out over the weekend. In the front on the left was planted (today) with the white-turnips.

Putting the brassicas to bed

The brassica that were reaised in seed-trays did generally very well with the exception of the cauliflower. The got too big for the seed trays and so were transplanted to the vege-patch.

As a reminder, they were: Broccoli (Premium Green F1), Cabbage (Copenhagen Market), Cauliflower (All Year Round), Pak Choy (White Stem).

Also transplanted peas (from way back) from trays to the patch. They do well inside, and outside they are a centimeter or so in length.

Finally, found the orange chedar cauliflower at Bunnings in Dunedin. One tray of 6 went in beside the other brassica. Overall a good weekend for the vege-patch.

Patch Pix

Early days yet but there's life in them there patches. Front and Middle is Cauliflower and Broccoli planted in autumn. They survive the winter and have started to take off. With luck they'll go to flower (which is the part we eat). In the background is Spinach.

Those shoots between the brassica is the garlic. The first shoots sprung up a week or two ago - and there should be more to come. They're grown from left-over sprigs from last year's crop planted close to the shortest day. In the background (above) you'll notice a few little white markers... they're marking out the radish that didn't yet sprout.

Pot-Tomatoes

The Tomatoes have grown to over an inch an so moved out of seed trays and into larger pots at their final destination. Above is a picture of the seedlings, these need potting and will probably get grown in the house.

Kohlrabi, Asparagus, Onions, and Lettuce

Sounds like quite a salad, but was quite a weekend. The Kohlrabi migrated from the seed-trays into the vege patch. Into the seed trays went 5 kinds of lettuce. Of couse, red lettuce is brassica not lettuce; and miners lettuce seeds don't look at all like lettuce seeds and so probably aren't lettuce either.

Red onion and green onion seeds went into trays as did asparagus seeds.

The rhubarb has started to show its head over the soil. As there is an abundance three plants were dug up and given to collegues. These were replaced with a different variety (Victoria) that were grown from seed last year (and kept in pots over the winter).

The tomatoes that were planted about 3 weeks ago (and I neglected to record) have germinated. They have grown to the size of a pin.

The brassicas planted a month ago need about another week before going into the patch.