Kohlrabi, An Unexpected Delight

After a wet Saturday, Sunday was spent felling and mulching a tree that was casting a shadow over the new extended patch. The said tree was also located in prime vege-patch real estate.

Took some turnips for tonights dinner as well as some Kohlrabi. Roasted Kohlrabi is good! Peel the vegetable using first your hand, then a potato peeler. The skin is woody and easily removed. Then rub in oil (in this case Rice-Bran Oil), then into the oven for about 30 mins. They are excellent.

Raw they're also good. They taste a little like a nutty cucumber.

Germinated Peppers

Two of the capsicum have reared their heads above the surface. They need a change to grow stronger, but they're there.

Carrots

Over the weeked managed to find time to weed and plant some carrot seeds.

Outside Pix

Lettuces

Brocolli

Peas

Inside Pix

Cucumbers

Zucchini

Germinated Brassicas

Its Chili

Had a few minutes and so planted 6 each of Capsicum and Chili Pepper. Placed the lot of them into a tray in the green-room.

Also finally got some (shop) silverbeet out of the tub they came in and into the patch. They were looking pretty sad and had been there several months. Chances are they'll die.

Seed Seeds Seeds, on the grow

All three seed-trays were empty, and its summer. This was a sad state of affairs that needed resolving. The seed-trays were washed in hot water, then rinsed in hot tap water, then filled with black-magic seed mix.

Into the three trays went 20 each of:
Spinach (winter giant)
Spinach (bloomsdale)
Cauliflower (all the year around)
Cauliflower (violet sicilian)
Cabbage (copenhagen market)
Brocoli (italian Precore)

That a load of Brassica and a lot of spinach.

As its early summers its also time to get the cucurbits in. They are a lot larget than the tiny brassics so they go into individual pots rather then seed trays. Into 4 pots each went:

Pumpkins (harvest gold)
Squash (sunbeam)
Zucchini (blackjack)
Zucchini (blackbeauty)

In previous years the pumpkins have suffered mold and not produced fruit - perhaps this year will reverse the trend.