A very wet winter saw several garden meets cancelled. With slightly improved weather in August we hopped to and planted potatoes in large pots, leeks, snow and snap peas, turnips, lettuces, cauliflower and broad beans. We also put effort into seed raising for Spring /Summer crops.
At the end of August we were harvesting daikon radish, planting English spinach and doing lots of soil moving and preparation for future planting including a stack of weeding. Also setting up poles and structures for future crops such as beans.
During September, in between more rain, we planted Bunnings’ annual donation of Spring seedlings and had a bumper working bee with extra helpers to accompany a big soil and compost delivery. Tomatoes went in with their basil companions as well as zucchinis, rainbow chard, purple carrots, red onion, corn, cucumber, spinach and eggplant. Thank you Bunnings!
On the harvest side there have been great crops of spring onion, silverbeet, warrigal greens, oregano, and many varieties of lettuce from speckled trout lettuce to cos, butter and mignionette. And the long wait for those bananas that first appeared back in March is almost done!
Alongside all this there has been potting up for the Crag Fair, composting, tidying sheds and equipment, setting rat traps, clipping flowers, seed raising, fertilising, pruning and spraying fruit trees, netting, monitoring, observing, watering (when it’s not raining), negotiating muddy soil (when it is raining), more weeding, reading up and researching, learning and sharing, socialising, collecting and cashing in recycled cans and bottles. It’s a lot when you put it all down.
Yes a busy time Spring but so rewarding everything you put in grows !