Arghh!! Winter gardening can be a challenge, but only if you let it.
Being away from home for a couple of weeks has given the green light for Winter weeds, plus the bean and basil crops are finished, only having old beans left on the bush - now that breaks my heart that they weren't eaten! The last few basil bush seeds have all fallen off too, so I missed out on collecting them (doesn't matter I have heaps from last collection :-).
It has been a very wet winter so far and fairly mild at around 5°c mornings. So not to despair I ripped the basil bush out, got rid of the weeds and applied some chook poo fertiliser (dynamic lifter) to basically everything including the citrus trees. For the citrus I scraped back the mulch under the drip line of the tree threw in the fertiliser and also watered in some seaweed fertiliser.
Also planted more swede, carrot, beans, radish, lettuce, peas – think that was all. Yes, it is getting a bit late for swede and peas (still good strike rate), but what’s the worst that can happen? They don’t grow, or die, things could be worse.
So, the ol' garden is a bit wet and slow but we are still getting food out of it so all is good! Check out today's harvest destined for the kitchen...
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Beetroot, leek, broccolini, tommy toe's, fancy lettuce,
baby spinach and of course, the citrus! |
