Showing posts with label spinach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spinach. Show all posts
Sunday, December 8, 2013
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.
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.
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Fires and hedging
As it turns out, the hedging should probably have been done in early October.
It's all fires and helicopters right now. And tradesmen, of course (how we do love our tradesmen!) The potatoes I planted in grow-bags are flowering now, and I have baby tomatoes on the yellow pear and cherry tomato plants. We're harvesting peas (novella) and kale and spinach, and the fennel looks great. It's all coming up. The olives are blossoming, plus the apples; the chickens are laying (3 out of four) and
Dave put the new bridge in today and all the sleepers.
Bless you, Dave. :)
It's all fires and helicopters right now. And tradesmen, of course (how we do love our tradesmen!) The potatoes I planted in grow-bags are flowering now, and I have baby tomatoes on the yellow pear and cherry tomato plants. We're harvesting peas (novella) and kale and spinach, and the fennel looks great. It's all coming up. The olives are blossoming, plus the apples; the chickens are laying (3 out of four) and
Dave put the new bridge in today and all the sleepers.
Bless you, Dave. :)
Saturday, September 28, 2013
We're back -
We had to go away for a few days while the floors were sanded.
The weather this week has been most odd. Very cold, and three days of rain, then very high winds and rather hot (25+ degrees). The garden seems to cope better than I do. One of the Rockets has started to lay :)
The apple trees are flowering, the plum is beginning to plum and the michaelis hedge is one of the prettiest things I've ever seen. I adore this place!
Today I put in another row of spinach, two rows of fennel, a row of carrots and radish (we're eating those other radishes now) and a few more beans. But I was watering most of the day because oh! those winds!
My regime at the moment in the vegie garden is weed one and feed two beds each day. Full watering happens every second day for ten minutes.
In seed news, the brandywine and jaune flamme tomatoes are up, but still a long way from transplant sized. The yellow and red grapes are flowering.
The weather this week has been most odd. Very cold, and three days of rain, then very high winds and rather hot (25+ degrees). The garden seems to cope better than I do. One of the Rockets has started to lay :)
The apple trees are flowering, the plum is beginning to plum and the michaelis hedge is one of the prettiest things I've ever seen. I adore this place!
Today I put in another row of spinach, two rows of fennel, a row of carrots and radish (we're eating those other radishes now) and a few more beans. But I was watering most of the day because oh! those winds!
My regime at the moment in the vegie garden is weed one and feed two beds each day. Full watering happens every second day for ten minutes.
In seed news, the brandywine and jaune flamme tomatoes are up, but still a long way from transplant sized. The yellow and red grapes are flowering.
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.)
Current Observations @ 9/09/2013 8:00:00 AM
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°C | Humidity: 84% | Pressure:1021.8hPa |
| Feels like: 12°C | Wind Speed: 18kp/h (Gusts: 30kp/h) | |
| Dew Point: 10.9°C | Wind Direction: N/A | |
| FORECASTS | |||
| Monday, September 09 | 10°C - 22°C |  | Fog then sunny |
| Tuesday, September 10 | 14°C - 21°C |  | Windy |
| Wednesday, September 11 | 7°C - 15°C |  | Mostly sunny |
| Thursday, September 12 | 5°C - 14°C | | Mostly sunny |
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