It’s surprising how much can be grown during a Sydney winter. With no frosts (at least near the coast), and less bugs, we’re getting plenty out of the garden each week. The chinese cabbages are my current pride and joy. These grow very quickly, and are just about ready to be harvested. They have, however, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘sugar snap peas’
Last orders from our winter vege garden
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged broccoli, pak choi, snow peas, sugar snap peas, vegetables, winter on August 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We recently went away for a two week break to Western Australia. Just as we left, the weather was warming up and the garden was delivering its last harvest. Luckily we lined up our next door neighbours to harvest the garden as well as look after the cat. When we got back, they told us [...]
Our current crop of greens
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged broccoli, broccolini, gardening, snow peas, sugar snap peas, winter on July 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is what we harvested from the garden over the last few days. There are four or five good handfuls of sugar snap peas and snow peas, plus a few modest heads of broccoli and broccolini. The broccoli is just coming into its own, so I expect we’ll have quite a lot of this over [...]
Beginner’s mistake: pruning the sugar snap peas too late
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged gardening, pruning, snow peas, sugar snap peas, winter on July 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As I’ve consistently highlighted, I’m making this up as I go, having never had the opportunity to have a real garden before. Of course, that’s the fun of it. One lesson now learnt: don’t wait until the sugar snap peas grow to the top of the frame before tip-pruning them. The result is that they [...]
Our first pak choy
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged pak choy, snow peas, stir fry, sugar snap peas, winter on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The red pak choy was one of the first things we planted into the garden, and it grew at a huge rate at the outset. Then the rain and cold weather hit, and everything slowed almost to a halt. Still, I’ve been keeping my eye on the pak choy, and tonight was the night. We [...]
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 [...]
