Protecting and tinkering

thinned swedes, approx 4 in between plants

Argh the weather lately has been very ordinary, cold and drizzling rain. But there are still little jobs to be done (plus I can't help myself). Pulling weeds and thinning some seedlings. The swedes are growing very nicely, but also getting quite crowded.

Also the ol' snow peas are growing again since we put a up a bit of a fence to protect them (wire ring from some trees that I planted) – as suspected, must of been Peter Rabbit visiting.

climbing snow peas off to slow start - a few weeks ago

now with 'fence' in place they are
protected and thriving

So its basically maintenance time stuff is growing but damn slow. Flower seeds planted (good germinating weather) – which will provide great spring colour!

protected pumpkins

Talking about critters eating things, the possums cost us some pumpkins -you wake up in the morning and a few pumpkins were half gone! So we used the wire rings as mentioned above, problem cured! So in the end we got some good pumpkins. Just as well, other wise the possums were going to be a whole lot edible as well!

Until next time get out there and check out ya patch and just tinker around a bit..

Weed 'n Feed

The days are very nice at the moment, but a bit cool, so the growing has slowed a fair bit. When it’s like this I just try not to take my eye off the ball.

All seems to be going well, albeit slow, so I normally mix up some liquid seaweed fertilizer (liquid fish fertilizer) in water and sprinkle everything with the watering can. That way things are still getting pushed along gently and organically.

Turn your back for a minute & the weeds pop up outa nowhere!

Also since we have had a bunch of rain and wild weather there has been allot of weeds come up behind my back - so I just scratch these out so there’s no competition for everything. The beetroot, beans, broccoli, swede are all going very well. Something has given my snow peas a flogging not sure what but the tops been eaten off them as if a bird or other animal. I will get to the bottom of it!

Tips missing off climbing beans.... thinking Peter Rabbit has visited

Flowers emerging on the string beans,
baby beans not far away

Swedes, parsnip and brown onion -
should be ready for spring

In the next few days I will blog about collecting seeds from basil this is a good cheap seed replant – and I love it. Just waiting for them to dry out a bit more on the bush.

Happy farming!