October 22, 2008
· Filed under Garden · Tagged cauliflowers, peas, produce, vegetables
We have harvested all of the peas and frozen about 800g (of probably only a total harvest of 1kg of shelled peas!)
Next year we will definitely have to plant many more rows of delicious peas given how easy they have grown and how yummy they are!
Now that all the pods have been harvested, the pea plants have been cut off at ground level (to keep the roots that have fixed nitrogen in the soil) and the top of the plants put in the compost bin.
All our cauliflowers are also gone – they got a little dry towards the end (not surprising given the hot weather). Also, the earwigs thought they were a great hiding spot.
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 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!
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.
June 18, 2008
· Filed under Garden · Tagged Back yard, gardening, peas, raised bed, vegetables, vegies
It’s taken about 10 days, but now I can see little green shoots from the pea seeds that we planted in the first raised bed.
No photo – they are very small and not that exciting.
