Luscombe Street Update - Week 18

I hadn't been out to the plot for two weeks, and as the weather has warmed up over that time, I was faced with a massive amount of new growth when I arrived!  The plot has just gone ape!

Purple sprouting broccoli everywhere, the carrots and rashes have grown about two inches, the broad beans are beginning to flower, and the spinach is going crazy!  Its so great to see that just a little bit of warmth and the plants just love it :)

I harvested so many veggies today - spinach, lettuce, coriander and radishes.  I will leave the broccoli until next weekend I think as it could do with a little bit more growth before I pick the first lot. 

Root / Fruit bed

Legume Bed

Brassica Bed

Allium Bed (see the Coriander at the bottom!)

First flowers on the Broad Beans

Purple Sprouting Broccoli!

Spinach, coriander, garlic, spring onion...

Nasturtium, radish, carrot and coriander...

Hawthorn Garden Update - Week 19

Things have slowed down again this weekend which is wonderful - it has meant I have been able to spend some quality time in the garden at home and at Luscombe Street which has been great.  The weather has been warming up over the past couple of weeks, and the garden is going leaps and bounds ahead!  Its so great to see things on the move, and growing well.

The potatoes have sprouted, and so time was spend on Saturday rolling up the sides of the containers and adding more soil over the sprouts ready for the little potatoes to do their growing!  The broccoli is also growing really well, and there are lots of little sprouts coming along on all of the plants which is great.  The beetroot and two kale plants are moving along as well, so hopefully we will be able to plant the sugar snap peas in there soon and harvest the beetroot soon after!

Many of the seeds have sprouted in the hot house as wel.  I sowed a heap of butter lettuce seeds at the same time as the other seeds I purchased from seeds2freedom and they are growing incredibly well.  The next to sprout were the sugar snap peas, and then the tomato seeds.

We went for a drive out to the Diggers Club garden in Dromana on Saturday and picked up some strawberry plants and a Stevia plant as well, that have now been planted out near the front door in a pot. 

Potatoes

Strawberries and Stevia plant out the front

Snow peas and baby spinach - we continue to pick from the spinach twice a week and it keeps on growing and growing!  An awesome crop...the snow peas have been growing, but seem to be prone to a bit of mould or something similar and are dying back in areas.  Might go for another variety next time, and provide a bigger trellice for them to grow on.

The Broccoli and Nasturtium are doing really, really well.  They're taking over a bit, but are doing so well so that's great!

Beetroot and Kale are going well as well.  Once the crop is ready to harvest we will plant the sugar snap peas and lettuces in this container.

The backyard...

Next batch of beetroot that will be planted once the broccoli are finished...

The Sugar Snap Peas, Butter Lettuce and Tomato plants have sprouted.

Beautiful head of Broccoli, almost ready to harvest.

Luscombe Street Update - Week 16-17

A quick update for Luscombe Street - it was a quick visit this fortnight.  A quick watering with seaweed solution and picking of spinach, radish and lettuce and I was off!

Allium Bed

Root / Fruit bed

Legume Bed

Brassica Bed

Hawthorn Garden Update - Week 18 Mega Mushrooms

A few pictures of three mega mushrooms that we harvested mid-August!  I forgot to check the shed for a couple of days, and these beauties had grown in that short time!  What a nice surprise and a yummy addition to dinner :)

Hawthorn Garden Update - Week 14-15

My spring and summer seeds have arrived from seeds2freedom this week!  So guess what I spent my day doing this weekend?  Planting away!

It is so exciting that its almost time to think about summer tomatoes, cucumbers and capsicum.  I can't wait.  Oh and basil too!  I ordered quite a few varieties of tomatoes to try this year.  I'm not sure how they will all go, but it will be interesting to see.

Seeds2freedom are a great online store that sell heirloom varieties of seeds from their farm in Tasmania.  You can have a look at their website here.

Listed below are the varieties that I have sown this weekend;

Basil Genovese (Ocimum Basilicum)
Sugar Snap Peas (Pisum Satiuum)
Capsicum California Wonder (Capsicum Annum)
Cucumber Lebanese (Cucummis Satiuus)
Indian River Tomato (Lycopersion Esculertum)
San Marzano Roma Tomato (Lycopersion Esculertum)
Cherry Tomato (Lycopersion Esculertum)

 Cut up milk carton to create labels

So many toilet paper rolls!

 All planted and labelled ready to go into the hot house...

Tomato seeds to be planted

 The thrifty funnel!

Seeds all sorted, planted and ready to grow.

I have tried to be as thrifty as possible with sowing seeds this season, using toliet rolls where possible, and cutting up a milk carton to make labels for them all.  A really handy gadget was an orange juice bottle that I cut up to use as a funnel to fill up the TP rolls with soil!

Luscombe Street - Week 12 - 13 Update

We continue to have a LOT of rain, which has meant that I haven't had to head out to the plot that often to make sure things are going ok.  With being so busy with other things this makes life very easy!  I headed out to the plot today and harvested a heap of veggies which was great - the spinach is going so well, along with the butter lettuces that I planted a fair while ago now.  They seem to have been a bit slow through the depths of winter, and now that the days are starting to get longer they're doing really well! 

Today's wonderful bounty! Butter lettuce, spinach and radish.

Root / Fruit Bed

Legume Bed

Brassica Bed

Allium Bed

Hawthorn Week 12 / Luscombe Street Week 11 Update

Sorry - I forgot to post photos of Hawthorn from Week 12!  Trying to catch up I'm afraid :)

This week brought on the first harvest of radish from the Luscombe Street garden!  I was incredibly excited, and just couldn't help myself.  I ate the radish straight out of the patch!  Delicious :)

We're in the depths of winter, so things are going at a bit of a slow pace, but all is going well and everything is looking very healthy.

Legume Bed

Brassica Bed

Allium Bed

Root / Fruit Bed

Radish!!!

Radish and Carrots growing along...

Butter lettuce seedlings that have sprouted

Sprouting broccoli, spinach and kale

Spinach, butter lettuce and spring onion

Garlic, spinach, spring onion and lettuce

The Hawthorn Planters - Broccoli, snow peas, nasturtium and various seedlings

The Hawthorn Planters - Beetroot