October 26, 2008
· Filed under Garden · Tagged Garden, planting, radish, seeds, tools
Well, we had few successes with our last lot of seed planting – probably as a result of our lack of watering due to a busy end of term 3 and some early summer weather.
So, we started a little seed box and are hoping to raise some more now.
Today some more radish seeds went in, along with some organic daikon radish seeds and some more butter beans. Let’s hope they come up with more success. The radishes seem to be hardy enough – especially since we had 2 radishes grow whereas no other seed came up from the first planting.
The tools in the shed.
October 8, 2008
· Filed under Garden · Tagged Back yard, vegetable, radish, chives, herbs
While the peas and cauliflowers are charging along, the chinese celery has gone to seed with its huge leaves still dwarfing the patch.
The radishes that were planted from seed are starting to appear.
However, the sunflowers, corn, cucumber, watermelon, rockmelon, pumpkin, chilli, basil and beans are not yet appearing. A lone zucchini plant has appeared from seed. The leeks are struggling, and the chinese mixed veg (bok choy, chinese cabbage etc) needs a lot more water and care than we give it. The capsicums are all doing well. Of the tomatoes we lost a couple to start with but the remainder look okay now. The eggplants all collapsed – we’ll have to try them again another time or perhaps plant them in containers in a more sheltered area under the verandah. The herbs under the verandah (coriander, parsley, brami, baby spinach, garlic chives) are looking okay too. When we remember to water them, that is.
Garlic Chives: they died down completely when we moved house, but have come back of their own accord with no hassles.
