T.W.I.G. (this week in the garden 4)

chicago peace climbing rose

The potatoes are all up and growing and the radish has just emerged (no sign of the other root crops yet ) - and as I write this a light mist is beginning to fall out in the garden (fingers crossed it turns into real wet stuff). The ground is warming up and all thoughts turn to the vegie garden at this time - but its great to see so many of my roses blooming already - this is the best year yet for my chicago peace rose.... it's planted next to our oldest lemon tree....



To do –

sow climbing bean seeds

weed sunken garden (prepare to plant pumpkin and squash)

plant ivy geranium and seaside daisy seedlings

and I still haven't moved that oldhamii bamboo.....


completed

seeds sown – amish paste tomato, yellow pear tomato, yellow capsicum, cherokee wax dwarf bean, red cos lettuce

moved 'lambs ear' from herb garden to decorative garden next to the orchard to form a ground cover.

Lawn mowed (thanks FP!)


picking/ eating

baby broad beans, italian cabbage, diggies silverbeet, rocket, passionfruit, red onion, leek, little finger carrot.

T.W.I.G. - (this week in the garden) 3

This week in the garden (TWIG): we've had a few more odd showers and storms which has lifted gardening spirits even if it hasn't filled the dams



many of the citrus are setting fruit - the lemons are looking particularly good at present




mulberries aren't ripe yet (the weather has been very cool) - other deciduous fruit trees have fruit on the way (the later apples have been blossoming) and we've given the whole orchard a liberal application of organic fertiliser

But much of our attention is now being focused on the vege garden... here it is at the end of winter/ beginning of spring - the two new beds in the front here are planted with pontiac potatoes - which have just emerged this week




here's the garden viewed from the west - and now that we have the 6 big beds I'm going to number them (to keep rotation in mind)




the closest to camera (and left to right) will be beds 1 & 2.... 3 & 4 are the raised beds in behind them... and 5 & 6 are the beds with the spuds this season... (I'll drawn a mud map when I get around to it)

bed one now has the first of the leafy greens planted - that's what it will be having all season

bed two will be our fruiting bed (tomatoes, capsicum, eggplant etc.)

bed three will be legumes (currently has a start with late season broad beans)

bed four is root crops - and here is where this week I've sown the first of our root section with royal chantenay carrot, white icicle radish, early wonder beetroot

I am hoping to do a lot of my vege planting according to my moon planting guide - but practicalities mean I have to plant when I have the time.... this has apparently NOT been a good planting week for anything.... oh well....

to do

left over jobs

sow first legumes

sow early tomato seed

beds 2 & 3 turned and prepared


completed

wistringea hedge planted (including attractive tree guards)

nasturtium seeds sown

early root crops seed sown

transplanted lettuce, pak choy, onion seedlings


picking eating
red onion, baby broad bean, chinese cabbage, tuscan kale, leek, carrot, silverbeet, rocket, passionfruit...