Progress Report

I picked my first crop of dill and coriander for a fish pie sauce. Yum.




Growth
For your interest, everything is growing in the garden...as you'd expect.

• Lettuce leaves are doubling
• Broad beans & peas are reaching for the sky
• Brocolli have gotten taller & fuller as have the carrots.

I am trying to remember to feed the plants weekly. I am just using seasol.

Opportunity
My seeds finally arrived from diggers. Luckily I had planted the seedings else the garden may have been planted too late. I'll save these seeds for next years crop.
I did plant the asparagus seeds into a seed tray. These will go in the front garden along the fence line, once big enough.

The winter magazine from Diggers arrived a week ago, so I quickly ordered strawberries, avacado and a blueberry vine from them before stocks run out! There is a small amount of soil space left - this is where the strawberries can be planted. The avacado and the blueberry can go in the front yard.

Problem Solving
I also pre-empted pests and dieseases hitting the garden so ordered a book on this - just in case.

A question for the audience - How does one best tie broad beans? any help on this is appreciated.

Tania - off to work soon...

Ground Breaking news

Folks are you ready for it.....the broad beans have arrived.
Green stalks have emerged through the mulch overnight.


Oh, what excitement I have in my life.

More Plantings

Well the veggie patch is almost full.

In the same week as the other plantings I aquired some leeks, carrots, dill, basil, oregano, peppermint, peas and bay leaf tree. These went into the patch on the 30th April.

Not much esle has been happening other than the plants are getting bigger. Yes I can hear you all going ... "well, der..."

Here is what the veggie patch looked like on the weekend.

Key Status report:

• Broccoli are getting taller
• Peas are almost due to be given some sort of support.
• Broad beans are yet to surface....

The bay leaf tree went in the front garden with the olive tree.

The Orange tree is looking magnificant and full of offerings. Oranges are showing a slight yellow hue and are a decent size considering the lack of water over summer.


I shall refer my "references" - perhaps it's time to give the plants a feed.. Interested in your thoughts?

take care.