rondo de nice zucchini (with flower... and pesky ants!)
a couple of the pumpkin/squash collection - growing in the 'hot border'
I don't know about 'four-seasons-in-one-day, but this week included one day at 44.3C (that 111F for all you non-metric people... which is mighty hot by anyone's standard!) followed by one at only half that temp, then one with a piddling amount of drizzle, another of just clouds, another with just thunder and the week has finished off with fogginess – all in all a frustrating week with only a drop of wetness in the rain gauge..... grrrrrrr..... (I'm sure if the plants could talk they'd be saying 'eeeeek!'....poor things)
still despite the yucko conditions we appear to be on course for a bumper crop of pumpkins and squash.... we have numerous plants in and most are doing extraordinarily well.... look...
baby golden hubbard squash
baby butternut pumpkin
we've got golden hubbard, blue banana, butternut, triamble - all going strong so far
and just check this out will you...
and just check this out will you...
its a self seeded watermelon (be careful where your kiddies spit out their seeds!) we've just let it do its thing...goodness only knows what it will be like (I'll let you know when its ripe – don't hold your breath its going to take a while!)
taking a tour of the garden is one of my favourite activities – I tend to focus on the potentials and possibilities rather than the problems and negative probabilities.... I'm clearly a 'glass-half-full' kinda gal
to do
plant bay tree seedling (in decorative 'chimney' bed)
plant herb seeds
plant more carrot, beetroot (oops forgot that this past week)
order 'jervis bay' wistringea seedlings (for extension of studio entrance hedge)
divide and move move 'americana' agave (anyone willing to do this for me? Geeez these things have nasty spines)
preserve nectarines and plums
completed
raspberry supports erected
pink day lily bulb planted out
'wet' herbs (mints, lemon balm) moved to revamped sunken garden bed
artichoke seedlings transplanted (into the sunken garden)
first sprouts and herb seeds purchased
picking/ eating
'tasty' lettuce, green oak leaf lettuce, raspberries, yellow peaches, yellow nectarines, rondo de nice zucchini, yellow crook neck zucchini, spring onions, ivory eggplant, pontiac potatoes, more of the weird zuc/cuc cross (we've started calling them 'zucumbers'!) and the first of our blood plums are just ripe enough to tuck into (ripening plums means its time to make the year's supply of plum sauce and plum jam)
to do
plant bay tree seedling (in decorative 'chimney' bed)
plant herb seeds
plant more carrot, beetroot (oops forgot that this past week)
order 'jervis bay' wistringea seedlings (for extension of studio entrance hedge)
divide and move move 'americana' agave (anyone willing to do this for me? Geeez these things have nasty spines)
preserve nectarines and plums
completed
raspberry supports erected
pink day lily bulb planted out
'wet' herbs (mints, lemon balm) moved to revamped sunken garden bed
artichoke seedlings transplanted (into the sunken garden)
first sprouts and herb seeds purchased
picking/ eating
'tasty' lettuce, green oak leaf lettuce, raspberries, yellow peaches, yellow nectarines, rondo de nice zucchini, yellow crook neck zucchini, spring onions, ivory eggplant, pontiac potatoes, more of the weird zuc/cuc cross (we've started calling them 'zucumbers'!) and the first of our blood plums are just ripe enough to tuck into (ripening plums means its time to make the year's supply of plum sauce and plum jam)
blood plum with bloom
