This hasn’t been a great summer season for the garden. The lack of sun and constant rain has meant that many seeds haven’t germinated properly, plants have grown up stunted, and yields are way down on last year. Still, you can’t go past these two beauties! I can see why they’re they’re the “Mortgage Lifter” [...]
Posts Tagged ‘summer’
Hand-sized “Mortgage Lifter” tomatoes
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged summer, tomatoes on February 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Saving our tomatoes
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged pasatta, pickles, relish, summer, tomatoes on January 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The warm, wet weather has meant a glut of tomatoes this summer. We’ve also had few fruit fly (although an invasion of moths and caterpillars). The result has been dozens of kilos of tomatoes, far more than we can eat. This was, however, the plan. With the bounty of tomatoes, I filled many jars. The [...]
Heirloom tomatoes
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged heirloom, preserving, summer, tomatoes on December 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
At this time of year, the tomato crop is in full swing, and the great thing about planting heirloom tomatoes is the variety. At any given point, our fruit bowl is full of ripening tomatoes, red and yellow, small and large. We pluck them off the plants as soon as they start to colour up, [...]
Update on our food forest
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged apple trees, convent, convent garden, cucumbers, food forest, lavender, oregano, pumpkins, rockmelons, rosemary, sage, summer, watermelons, weeds on December 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
About six months ago, I cleared a overgrown mass of privet in the convent’s land behind our house to create a new food forest. Apple trees were ordered and planted, along with a bunch of other fruit trees. This quickly became the first round of a multi-year war against weeds. With the warm, wet weather, [...]
A jungle of tomatoes
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged beans, celery, cucumber, snowpeas, summer, sweetcorn, tomatoes on December 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The wet spring (the wettest on record) has been miserable for us humans, but the garden has been loving it. Plants that did well last year have gone crazy this year, beyond all reasonable expectation. This includes: Tomato plants (both bush-type and climbing-type) that have gone wild, taking over everything. Beans and snowpeas producing vigorously. [...]
Onions in three colours
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged onions, summer on February 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »
These are the last of our onion harvest. In all we harvested several dozen onions, with a mix of red, white and brown varieties. A reasonable haul, but I was hoping for many more. Looking back, I made several mistakes: Uncharacteristically, I planted too few. Unlike plants like silverbeet which I consistently over-plant, I could [...]
The tomato harvest
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged summer, tomatoes on February 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve had a reasonable first year for tomatoes. Plenty of fruit, but we were hit hard by fruit fly and caterpillars (who decided they preferred eating the fruit from the inside out, rather than just munching on leaves). This wiped out most of the Grosse Lisse (the first to fruit), and half of all the [...]
Garden snapshot: summer 2010
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged garden, snapshot, summer on February 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’ve had a few comments from blog readers asking for a view of the whole vege garden. So here it is! As mentioned in earlier posts, all our vege gardening happens at the front of the house, as this is where the sun is. It also makes great use of the odd triangle of land [...]
Three little pumpkins in a row
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged pumpkins, summer on January 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Now that the holiday season has passed, it’s probably time I got back into the blogging. Let’s kick things off with our first three pumpkins out of the garden. Our small variety have gone great, with three more pumpkins on the way. Our large pumpkin plants seem more intent on taking over the world than [...]
