Well the time has come.... the days are getting longer, (and warmer...?) and we should be thinking about our spring/summer vegetable garden. For me this starts with raising some seeds indoors. Purchasing seeds allows you to get an early jump on the growing season, and also opens you up to many more varieties than you […]
The Vegetable garden is in a transition phase at the moment. Because we have had quite a mild autumn a lot of my summer vegies are still producing, but yet I am trying to make room to get some winter vegies started. Summer vegetables still hanging on are tomatoes, capsicums, pumpkins, zucchini and chillis. I've […]
We’ve been having some very wintery weather here these last few days. It’s been quite nice actually, because the first two weeks of winter were very mild. Today we have had almost non-stop drizzly rain and cold, cold winds. With lambing well and truly underway, the vegie garden has not got a lot of attention […]
I picked the first of our broccoli last night. They are massive heads, and I think I picked them just in time as they will start spreading if I’d left them much longer. Obviously this is much more than we are likely to eat in the next week or so, so I cut them up […]