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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