Showing posts with label chard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chard. Show all posts

Saturday, October 26, 2013

Food

We're currently (really - right now as I speak)  eating Jonathon's kipfler potatoes, my massey peas cooked in butter and Jonathon's green garlic with a little of the McKeith rosemary and salt that we bought in the Carmargue. A side of kale salad and radishes. Not too bad.

The pea thing is huge at the moment - I have the ones we're harvesting and two more plantings to follow. I probably planted too much chard, just enough spinach and there can always be more radishes.

The cauliflowers are just forming heads, also the broccoli. I transplanted the brandy wine and jaune flamee which are looking very healthy.  The weather is totally stupid. 37 degrees one day, 18 the next. There's no need to factor it into the planning - just plant everything all the time would be my advice.

Monday, September 9, 2013

Good morning!

Monday is (amongst other things) Water The Roses and Strawberries Day. As the summer comes on, I'll do that in the mornings, but while the tradies are working out there, leave it till after they've gone.






This is what the working part of the garden looks like right now. We have spinach, chard, kale, lettuce, beetroot, peas, early climbing beans, cabbage, cauliflower, potatoes (Jonathons - self-sown: I know it's too early!!! ) broccoli, broccolini, radishes, chillis, sweet chillis, garlic, (Jonathon put it in for us during the settlement phase and it's just about ready for harvest) carrots, pak choy, and the fruit trees - three apples, a prolific orange, a lemon that Jonathon's mother-in-law brought in Forbes. Oh, and the strawberries. And four kinds of thornless berries along the fence and two olive trees. And a nectarine.

And the chickens of course.

Except for Jonathon's work (the layout, the fruit and berries, the garlic, the soil, the compost - god, but we're lucky!) all this is in the very early stages - at the moment we're taking in oranges and leafy greens and that's all. (And the herbs from the herb pots - photos of herbs later.)


Bowral Weather

CURRENT CONDITIONS IN BOWRAL, NSW
Current Temp:13.6°CHumidity: 84%Pressure:1021.8hPa
Feels like: 12°CWind Speed: 18kp/h (Gusts: 30kp/h)
Dew Point: 10.9°CWind Direction: N/A
Current Observations @ 9/09/2013 8:00:00 AM
FORECASTS
Monday, September 0910°C - 22°C   Fog then sunny   Fog then sunny
Tuesday, September 1014°C - 21°C   Windy   Windy
Wednesday, September 117°C - 15°C   Mostly sunny   Mostly sunny
Thursday, September 125°C - 14°C   Mostly sunny   Mostly sunny