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 ‘silverbeet’
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 »
A very early Christmas
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged carrots, christmas, cooking, herbs, silverbeet, spring onion on October 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Monday I cooked Christmas lunch for my team from work, as is the tradition. (Yes Christmas! The price to pay for having two of the team going on maternity leave late this year.) For the meal, the garden provided: masses of silverbeet carrots spring onions salad greens herbs, including mint and dill From this, [...]
Silverbeet going to seed
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged seeds, silverbeet, spring on October 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve just got back from two weeks in Europe (work unfortunately, not pleasure). It’s definitely spring: everything has grown hugely in the last fortnight. This includes the silverbeet, which seems determined to take over the world! The leaves are huge, and are crying out for some serious harvesting. A number of the plants are also [...]
The harvesting has begun
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged gardening, harvesting, kale, silverbeet, snow peas, spinach, winter on June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The obvious milestone for starting a new vege garden is the first harvest, straight from the garden to the plate. While everything grew rapidly during autumn, the cold snap over the last week has definitely slowed things up. Still, this was a good week for home-grown food: Last Sunday: a handful of tuscan kale, sauteed [...]
