Hey buddies,
It has been a busy time right here at house. The most effective information is that now we have had rain, and it has been a daily incidence this Spring. We’ve got had little or no sizzling climate with solely a sprinkling of warmish days. Evidently the vegetation, particularly the fruit bushes and greens are rising ever so properly.
The soil took additional time this 12 months to heat up, so I needed to be affected person, however now virtually every little thing has sprung into life.
There are lots of images on this publish, so I hope you may make it proper to the top.
First up is a self sown Zucchini which got here up within the soil of a wicking foam field and it’s the small spherical selection. That is the primary feminine flower and I hand pollinated it this morning.
The garlic is trying unhappy after all of the rain. It has fallen over and I have to decide as as to whether to tug it out earlier than it rots within the damp soil, or depart it to see if it is going to be okay.
That is climbing spinach. It died over winter so I buried the stays beneath some contemporary prime soil and that is what occurred. Tomorrow I hope to pot a few of these up and discover properties for them.
Candy striped cucumber vines taking off up the weld mesh.
Lebanese cucumber.
A lot of self sown tomatoes have come up, that is how I do know the soil has warmed sufficient. I believe these are tiny black cherry tomatoes.
I transplanted the comfrey from pots to a wicking field and it’s loving its new house.
Rhubarb trying wholesome.
New shoots on the bay leaf tree.
My first pomegranate flower, so fairly.
Dainty flower of the lemon verbena.
Seven 12 months beans.
Blended lettuce seedlings.
Extra zucchinis, these are the black jack selection.
On this mattress are self sown capsicum plant and spring onions. The blackbirds have been taking part in havoc within the backyard beds, scratching round searching for treats and destroying a few of my vegetation within the course of.
The blueberry bush.
Stupice tomato plant.
Black Russian tomato.
Silver beet seeds I planted and self sown inexperienced zebra tomatoes.
Eggplants.
Carrots.
Right now’s harvest.
Tommy toe tomato.
Spring onions and beetroot plant.
Capsicum and silver-beet.
Self sown peas from pea-straw within the spring onion mattress.
Garlic chives.
The chives are flowering for the time being.
A rocket plant appeared within the floor after rain.
White yarrow and is about to flower.
Extra self sown capsicum that I’ve moved to a mattress with spring onions.
Child spinach.
Leeks.
The Jerusalem artichokes have re-emerged this spring. There are additionally tiny silver beet seedlings on this mattress, I can be transferring these to a different spot tomorrow.
I do imagine it is a potato plant that has grown from potato skins I dug into the soil with different scraps.
Mustard greens flowers left for the native bees.
On this tub I planted melon seeds. From left to proper are; sweet melon, rock melon and honey dew melon. But to come back up are small spherical watermelons.
My overgrown carrot mattress!
Strawberry plant. I’ve this one rising in an previous bucket in potting soil meant for acid loving vegetation. My soil is simply too alkaline to develop these properly. It appears glad and I’ve been choosing strawberries.
Fig tree in a pot. You might do not forget that this was a tree stump after we put it in right here.
Blended lettuce and eggplant rising in these wicking pots.
That is what occurs when chopping the highest off a cabbage. It grows a number of little ones! Now it would turn out to be chook meals.
One other mattress of capsicum and spring onions.
Leeks.
Salvia.
Sage in flower. Herbs produce such fairly flowers.
Oregano rising loopy!
Right here come the candy potatoes.
Globe artichokes.
Lemon balm.
Parsley.
Silver beet seedlings and weeds, additionally one beetroot.
Cabbage.
Beetroot.
Volunteer capsicums.
Silver beet seedlings.
Potatoes rising from peelings and reusing a grain bag. That is how I develop spuds.
I went to a permaculture truthful in Port Lincoln on the weekend and got here house with these. Warrigal greens {I’ve been after a few of this for some time to make use of as a canopy crop}, borage and chamomile. The brown pot has a plant that got here up in one other mattress and I’m making an attempt to determine what it’s.
I used to be tidying up the Jasmine within the entrance yard and found one of many branches had taken root, so I potted it up.
I’ve purchased a raspberry and grape vine, and hopefully I’ll get to plant these this week.
Mish mash of vegetation, apricot and nectarine bushes that germinated from seeds, a white fig tree taken from my greater tree, climbing ficus {fig}, rosemary, celery and spring onions.
I planted Ironbark pumpkin seeds on this previous apple field, and I hope to coach them to develop up the fence.
This yarrow has been moved to the surface of the veggie patch. I’ve an excessive amount of rising, and I have to resolve what to do with the surplus. I’ve tried planting it within the floor beneath the fruit bushes but it surely died or was scratched out by the chooks. So I’ve planted some close to the place the drain water comes out beneath one of many wicking baths, and observed a few random younger vegetation rising within the floor across the patch.
Within the strategy of establishing extra wicking containers.
Row by row…
Within the orchard the bees have been extraordinarily busy.
Bunches of mandarins…
That is the healthiest I’ve ever seen this white fig tree, usually it’s dry and straggly however with all this nice spring climate and rain, it’s booming.
Child figs forming.
Even the mango tree is doing properly.
So is the mulberry tree.
The grapevine is rising like loopy. Sadly extra leaves than fruit, which appears to be occurring loads on different bushes additionally.
Hopefully this little guava tree will bear fruit this 12 months. One other rescued tree that was only a stump.
Right here now we have pigeon pea. I had bought seeds some time in the past, so popped them within the floor anticipating them to not develop. However they did! So I’m very glad.
The moringa tree is taking off after scuffling with extreme frosts over winter.
And I observed this one additionally has shoots. Woohoo!
So happy to see pods on the Sturt’s desert pea, this implies I ought to have extra come up subsequent 12 months.
Utilizing small buoys lower in half for the bees water. This concept got here from a buddy and he gave us some to strive.
Planted extra beetroot within the pots. I’ve harvested the primary crop and preserved them.
Strawberries. These are rising in our alkaline soil and do not do as properly. I’m hoping the pine needles add some acidity to the soil.
I left this beetroot to go to seed however the sturdy wind has blown it over and out the soil.
Letting the lettuce flower for gathering seed.
The buddleia is about to flower.
Gold.
And lastly a glance inside my worm farm to see the wholesome fats compost worms.
As you possibly can see the backyard retains me busy.
This week I can be making an attempt to meet up with a number of jobs. My patch wants a tidy up, there are weeds to tug, wicking containers to be completed, vegetation to pot up and plant out, and the chook home additionally wants a clear out. No time to sit down nonetheless lol!
See you quickly.
Take care everybody,
