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
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