October 8, 2008
· Filed under Garden · Tagged Back yard, cauliflower, Garden, magic, vegetables
When I planted the cauliflowers in June in the first vegetable bed, I didn’t think they would grow much since it was fairly late (if not completely out of) season. They grew lots of leaves and got to be big plants, but there were no heads forming so I thought I would have to just pull them out the the ground come summer. However, secretly forming and growing were some cauliflower heads that really appeared when I came home from Quezon City. Yay! We have cauliflowers! The magic of the garden – that we could have VERY late season cauliflowers forming in every plant. The heads are even of a reasonably size. Magic.
Just look at that beautifully formed magical cauliflower! 
October 8, 2008
· Filed under Garden · Tagged Back yard, Garden, peas, vegetables
When I came back from 2 weeks in the Philippines, I was delighted to find that our peas plants had grown, flowered, and now had pea pods. The pods are one by one becoming ready to pick. Yum!
The peas took about 115 days, or 3 months and 23 days, to go from seeds in the ground to ripe pods ready to eat (planted 8th June, first harvested 1st October 2008).
September 7, 2008
· Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged building, ferryden park, strawbale
The wall we helped build.
September 7, 2008
· Filed under Garden · Tagged Back yard, Garden, vegetables
Filled up the beds with compost…
…and planted seeds and seedlings.
Bed 1:
In bed one are the peas (growing at the back), cauliflowers, chinese celery, mint) with a space for 2 rows of soy beans, then a row of butter beans, a row of red pioneer beans and a row of windsor long pod bush beans at the front.
Bed 2:
Bed two contains at the front a row of sunflowers (seed), a row of radishes (seed) then some space for cauliflowers, broccoli and cabbages to be planted a bit later, then a row of asian greens (mix of chinese cabbage, bok choy and pak choy), leeks and brown onions, fancy lettuce, celery and rocket (gone to seed).
Bed 3:
In bed three we have (from the front) green capsicums, a row of chilli (seeds), a row of sweet basil (seed), roma tomatoes, big tomatoes, eggplants.
Bed 4:
Bed four contains (from front) butternut pumpkin, beetroot, cucumber, carrots, watermelon, rockmelon, zucchini, sweet corn and asian greens.
whee!
August 17, 2008
· Filed under Garden · Tagged Back yard, cauliflower, chinese celery, gardening, lettuce, marigolds, peas, vegies
The peas are still growing and now have some stakes and jute string to climb along.
We were given this plant as a little seedling at our housewarming. It was labelled as Chinese Celery. It doesn’t have much of a stalk, but it’s leaves are huge and going everywhere. Maybe it’s not celery after all? It’s really huge.
The cauliflowers are also growing, but only leaves. I’m pretty sure they were put in too late to grow heads. We’ll see what happens.
The rogue marigolds are everywhere. They came up from mystery seed in the potting mix and are crowding out the little native in the middle and the daffodils around the sides. Mr Gnome is doing okay amongst the marigold crowd.
Meanwhile, the lettuce (from seed) in the pot, along with the potted parsley, is doing fabulously. The baby spinach, strawberry and coriander are suffering from the cold, I think.
Time to start thinking about spring/summer seeds…
July 18, 2008
· Filed under Uncategorized
On the weekend we had access to a trailer and so we took all the bricks from the back of mum & dad’s house, and about 100 from work mates and created a stock pile.
From the roughly 200 bricks, we laid out 4 long beds. The washing line and tree are in the way, but the idea is there.
In the future, we would like to have 6 beds so that we can rotate the vegies.
We started making some paths from old carpet, but haven’t finished. Likewise with the stepping stone brick path – not yet finished.
July 7, 2008
· Filed under Garden · Tagged inspiration
July 7, 2008
· Filed under Garden · Tagged eden, links, planting guide, sites, vertical gardens
For later: a planting guide for the climate of Adelaide.
planting_guide_eden
and some seed sites for later too…
http://www.selectorganic.com.au/content/default.asp
http://www.edenseeds.com.au/content/default.asp
and something else interesting…
http://azsustainability.com/2008/05/12/rainwater-harvesting-vertical-garden/
Vertical rain garden
July 1, 2008
· Filed under Garden · Tagged Back yard, bulbs, flowers, Garden
Some bulbs from last year (dug up and brought with us to our new house) and some from Penny are starting to flower.
Here’s a fragrant and delicate Jonquil flower, planted from Penny’s massive bulb stash.
Here’s a daffodil, surrounded by masses of little marigolds yet to flower. The marigolds came up from mystery seed hidden amongst the pot, and are almost drowning out my plant from the start of school Staff Day this year.
The Cyclamen from mum when we moved into our new house is still looking great, although gardening books tell me that it should be looking bad about now… while some flowers are dying, there’s still lots of new growth.
July 1, 2008
· Filed under Garden · Tagged Back yard, pea, vegetables
Oooh.. they’re getting so big now…
We raised the wire mesh up a bit to give them more room to grow, but still there to give them protection from cats/birds that may want to eat them all.
This photo is about 23 days after the seed was planted.
