Seeds

Quiet weekend. 100 mixed carrots (Kaiotes), White turnips (Kaiots), black radish, and some turnips from the saved seed. A little thining out of cramped areas, but other than that, not a lot happened.

Also spend some time preparing the right hand patch. The area on the righr was dug over to one spade depth and 1 inch of compost added. Decided in the end to do the whole side which meant removing the artichokes and the spinach.

Clearly things are growing.

Green room to Garden

Seedlings that sprouted during the week were moved into the garden, again the area by the tree. 1 Giant Pumpkin, 1 Pumpkin, 2 Squash, and 3 Zucchini. All the previous transplantings appear to be living, but a few might die over the next week. There has been snow in the last week so it isn't that surprising that something might have died.

Also spent some time digging the remaining areas in the patch for the season. Compost is needed.

Rhubarb is doing very well and might flower soon. It got very big and might have to be moved soon.

The sprouting chamber is showing almost total success with onion, red onion, leek, and spring onion.

Seed Day

Another 100 mixed colour carrots, this time from Niche seeds. Also another row of Tokyo turnips (Kaiotes), black radishes (Kaiotes), and turnips (seeds collected by me).

Although the second patch is not yet ready, in went a row of spinach near where the artichokes are. With some luck the cat won't dig the spinach up this time!

Contact!

There's others in Dunedin also trying to grow vegies. Today Leigh Blackall sent me a couple of emails about his vege patch. His blog gives some details. He had success with potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, spinach, strawberries (and more). None of these are in our patch - mostly because I don't like potatoes. We just never tried strawberries.

Squash

Moved some of the pumpkin and zucchini that had sprouted in the green-room into the garden. Just checked... 2 giant pumpkin (kaiotes), 1 regular pumpkin and 2 zucchini (Watkins). In previous years both pumpkin and zuccchini have been washed out so they were placed by the tree over the back of the patch. This spot is a little more sheltered than the patch and a little dryer too. Last year zucchini did well in the house but with all male flowers there was no fruit. I'm told that zucchini do very well outside in this city.

Plantings

Seedlings into the garden seeds into some pots.

The cauliflowers and broccoli in the planting chamber went into the garden. The Romanesco, purple cauliflowers, and white cauliflowers did ok. It remainds unclear whether the green even sprouted. There new lot from a week ago are in potting mix so if anything sprouts its clear what it is.

New into the sprouting chamber are 10 each of: Leek, Red Onion, Onion, and Spring Onion. New into plastic trays went 8 each of: Yellow Corn, White Corn, and Brussel Sprouts.

Brussel Sprouts (Watkins) sprout 7-10 days, harvest 16-18 weeks.

Oh, and tons of peas (that expire in 2007) in the front garden just because there was space there to put them.