We are so impressed. We built our vege garden and planted on Melbourne cup long weekend (early november)
We have eaten all our lettuces (about 8) and have eaten most of our spring onion bunches. We have a continuous supply of parsley which is sooooo yummy and we have already pulled 2 great size zucchinis.
Our garden is purely organic and we cannot believe the difference in our zucchinis vs bought ones. Our skins are flawless and so smooth and the inside tastes creamy!
We have HEAPS of greeen tomatoes with one just starting to turn orange yesterday and our pumpkins are finally growing.
Our corn plants are over 1 metre tall and have just started getting the stalk bits.
The eggplant plant is doing nothing but growing. No development there unfortunately.
And we have a small capsicum which wont grow anymore?
Our cucumbers are fat and *****ly and look so cute. Just waiting for them to grow a bit longer
and i think thats about it! Would love to hear about yours too
Ours is doing well but looks like absoulute crapola because DP isn't getting out there and weeding or mowing so the grass is growing up so high around it and I am too pregnant to do anything about it! He is so naughty!
we've pretty much eaten all of our lettuce too, and gave some away cos they all came ready at once
zucchini's - we've had about five ourselves, and gave a few away - absolutely delish. have had a handful of mini roma's and cherry tomatos ready, which have made our salads fantastic
our corn is about 1.5m high, maybe a bit higher, we have corn husks, just waiting for them to finish filling out with yummy yellow kernals. pumpkin is going well - it's a random one that has grown from the compost heap so don't even know if it's qold blue or butternut! we have a pineapple almost ready to harvest too... fruit trees going insane - noticed this morning that DH had put two peaches in the fridge for me from our new peach tree (only went in last winter) - they're an anzac peach and very sweet and tasty!
Our garden bed is waiting for some soil, and then we can plant some of the seedlings, if any of them have actually sprouted from the seeds! We have some capsicum seedlings that DH saved some seeds from a capsicum we bought for dinner one night. He is quite chuffed that he got them to grow.
Our potted dwarf mulberry tree has some new mulberry's on it. Only got it for mothers day last year, and it has fruited quite well so far.
The lotsa lemons looks like it might have something chewing at it's leaves? Have to investigate a bit closer than just walking past it.
This is my 2nd tear of growing organic fruit and veg. Last year went quite well so I have become a bit more brave this year and have extended my range and garden space.
Things I am enjoying:
12kg of potatoes (I'm sharing them around to family and friends)
6 chilli plants that are all doing a great job (made my first batch of sweet chilli sauce the other day)
3 varieties of self seeded cherry tomatoes going wild (I have jars at the ready for a pickle making frenzy)
Carrots going steadily but I will try another variety next planting.
lettuce all gone now, they struggled with the heat but I have let a couple of plants go to seed and I have collected the seeds.
white onions all picked and drying. They were slow to start but have grown really well. I let two go to seed and collected the seeds.
I planted beetroot but they are miserable little things that are battling the heat.
Spinach is giving us the odd meal but is doing well and hopefully much more to come frome it.
2 types of Cucumbers are just about ready to pick the first ones.
Water melons are growing fantastic with about 15 good sized fruit growing bigger by the day, this is my first year for them so hopefully when we cut them open they will be worth the effort.
Rockmelon were slow to start but we have fruit starting to grow nicely, the timing is probably good because we have been enjoying the mother inlaws so far.
Crossing the fingers that the pumpkins and grammars will be as good as last year (we kept the family/friends in supply for 6 months).
Corn, I have planted lateish so I hope thing will go well.
Fruit trees are all still young, we added to the list this year including blueberries and Goji berries fingers crossed once again.
I am loving pottering around and the kids love to help. We love sitting to the dinner table and pointing out the things that we have grown in our garden, and I am happy to say that the trips to the suppermarket are fewer.
I bought watermelon seedlings and planted them over 8 weeks ago. They have not grown at all! They havent died either so I have no idea what to do with them.
OUr neighbours planted watermelon seeds AFTER we planted our seedlings, and his are HUGE! I might be stealing his
Our corns have started forming on the sides of the stalks and our pumpkins are finally tiny bulbs!
Maybe the cucumbers were overripe? I know it sounds mad, but our zucchinis are quite small when they're ripe and if i leave them longer than that they go soft from the end. Is it all of them or just some? If its sun, you could put a bit of cardboard over or some shadecloth draped over. Don't know how they are growing but something like that should help - we did that for our tomatoes which were getting sunspots. If its fungus, try neem oil.
our garden is a bit wild at the moment. The punkin vine has taken over in one bed and the other one hasn't been replanted yet, has some nice herbs growing though. It just got so dry here and hot that I spent all day bucketing water from various places and ran out of time to garden. It has been raining a bit this week so maybe this weekend I'll get back into it. Love picking the veg, its the best!
well ew have 3 cucumber plants, each with tiny ones on there, and one big one on each. Its rather fat, but not too long. No more than say 5 inches. And they all have been bleached in the same spot
Ours was going really well, heaps of tomatoes, chillies, spring onions but the hot weather has fried it...not much has survived. We've had 3 weeks of pretty much 35+.
we are trying to hang in there with the heat being in the 40's this week, and no sign of it dropping soon. I made some blow your top off tabasco style hot chilli sauce last night...too hot for me but hubby loves it lol. I was great to use our chillies, tomatoes and onions, I felt a bit like Jamie Oliver lol.
I think I have lost a heap of seeds that I planted about a week before the heat started to crank up, unless they have better scense then to try to grow just yet.
we lost some carrot seeds that were planted just before the painfully hot heat hit, but everything else is still thriving, in spite of the high temps! tomatos are all coming ripe now so i'll be busily making sauces soon. zuc's have gone ballistic - we're eating it every day and still not keeping up - have given away heaps! corn is PERFECT - having that every day or two as well. we're waiting til the end of the weekend before planting more carrot seeds and will prolly put in some peas at same time. we put in some more corn seedlings just before they heat hit and they seem to be doing ok - same with the lettuce
Well my veggie garden this year exists entirely in my imagination since we've been in transit and our current heat-wave conditions are not the best for planting! But...I can just taste those juicy tomatoes, still warm and fragrant from the vine..Mmmmm. Can't wait til next year!!
Things have started to look a little droopyeach afternoon but come good after a bit more water. I look a little droopy after a day in the sun too!
But, I had an interesting discovery. I have a pumpkin plant up the back that I was getting angry at because it wasn't producing any pumpkins. But in the droopiness yesterday I discovered that it has one ENORMOUS pumpkin. Just one. But it is the size of a fit ball - I kid you now - a BIG fit ball. So the plant has had it's repreive for now - I was going to pull it out exept it has been too hot to do it or to plant anything else - now I don't know what to do with it. I suppose I will leave it to ripen but I can't lift it already and it is still growing. It looks like a big haloween style pumpkin - clearly not the butternut that I was expecting from the plant.
So, any ideas on what to do with an enormous pumpkin?
We lost a whole heap of seedling in the green house with the heat wave. I have some new ones, but will wait to Sunday before I plant them out, just in case they do not survice tomorrow.
We are getting zucchinis, but they are not growing much before dropping off. The corn is looking good and we have heaps of celery and cucumbers. The capsicum has finally taken off and the tomatos are almost due for picking. Will need to put in more lettuce, we had a heap, so a lot of it is now bitter. Pumpkins are a concern, not sure what it going on there, would love to have the killer pumkin Muppity. Have to start thinning out the carrots, they are a bit crowded.
Our herb garden is taking off. We check out Bunnings for their discounted seed trays, often we can pick something up for less than a dollar. Sometimes they don't make, but most of the time they do, so we have made some huge savings there. Got some lemon mint the other day.
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How is your vege garden going atm?
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