We’ve had more luck with our seed raising this year, and last week I transplanted a whole pile of seedlings out into the garden. The beds are looking pretty bare at the moment, but we have a huge crop ahead of us: Carrots Silverbeets Turnips Snow peas Sugar snap peas Peas Leeks Beetroots Spring onions [...]
Posts Tagged ‘autumn’
Autumn seedlings are in the ground
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged autumn, beetroots, broccoli, broccolini, cabbages, carrots, kale, leeks, peas, silverbeet, snow peas, spring onions, turnips on April 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Harvesting carrots
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged autumn, carrots, spring on October 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The great thing about carrots is that you can leave them in the ground until you need them. Although as you can see from the photo above, they can become monsters! But with spring planting underway, we just needed the space, so the carrots had to go! Out they come in one big harvest. A [...]
All broccoli, all the time
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged autumn, broccoli, cauliflower, gardening, seeds, winter on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I took a two-pronged approach when planting out in Autumn. I bought punnets of dwarf cauliflower, planting out two rows of seedlings. I then supplemented this with two rows of broccoli, planted from seed. At least, that was the plan. As you can see from the picture above, this is broccoli, not cauliflower. In fact, [...]
Sugar snap peas: 2m high and still growing
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged autumn, climbing, gardening, peas, snow peas, sugar snap peas, trellises on June 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When we moved into our new house, I created three climbing frames, the first two for sugar snap peas, the third for snow peas. As you can see, the first bed is growing out of all bounds! Even at 2m high, these plants are still attempting to go up, and would do if I didn’t [...]
White passionfruit
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged autumn, fence, fruit, gardening, passionfruit on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Before heading off to work this morning, I planted out two new white passionfruit seedlings. These were a gift from my grandmother, who rescued a fruit from her old house, and grew new plants from that. Apparently these type of passionfruit produce long, almost banana shaped fruit that are extremely sweet. The fruit is, naturally, [...]
Lemons, limes and oranges
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged autumn, citrus, garden, lemons, limes, oranges, trees on May 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The last major task for the front garden this season was getting in the citrus trees. Two weekends ago, I started by marking out a garden bed 5.5m x 1.2m, and then dug that down to a depth of a foot-and-a-half (a back-breaking job!). I then constructed a treated pine frame to build the bed [...]
Cabbages are bedded in
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged autumn, garden, vegetables on April 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m excited by the rows of cabbages, both chinese and western. They should provide quite a crop!
Autumn planting: round two
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged autumn, garden, vegetables on April 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Now that all four garden beds are in place, I could plant out the bottom two beds: Snow peas Cabbage, Chinese Cabbage, Savoy King Onions, red Onions, white Broccoli, Gamblers (from seed) Broccoli, Bambino (a single plant) Cauliflower, baby white (Since I’ve left it a bit late, I’ve planted out all these from punnets rather [...]
Autumn planting: an addition
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged autumn, garden, vegetables on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There was a small gap in my second bed, so I planted red pak choy seeds. Amazingly, these sprouted in only two days, and are growing strongly.
