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 - 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

Luscombe Street - Week 10 & 11 Update

Two weeks away from the garden and the blog has flown by so fast!  We were busy with my Mum and Dad last weekend, who had come down for the weekend for Dad's birthday.  It was lovely but it meant that I didn't have time to check in on the plot, or potter away at home in the garden.

Things are going incredibly well in the Luscombe Street patch.  I pulled my first baby radish on the weekend and it tasted just delicious!  Not too zingy which was great, just very fresh and delicious.

The Legume Plot

The broadbeans continue to grow, and the lettuce has picked up as well which is great.

The Brassica Plot

The Broccoli is going really well, and continues to grow.  There are also little clusters of Coriander that have sprouted and growing really quickly which is great - hopefully we'll have all of the ingredients for an asian feast once the bok choi, spinach and broccoli are ready!

The Allium Plot

Its amazing how much has happened with this section of the plot over the past few weeks.  Coriander is growing wild, there's heaps of butter lettuces that have sprouted and are growing well.  And who would have known, but the garlic has also sprouted!   I was so worried about it because the bulbs at home sprouted after only a week or two.  The plot has taken ages! The spring onions are also growing, along with the spinach!

The Root / Fruit Plot

 Soooo exciting - I pulled my first radish on the weekend!  It was amazingly delicious - I can't wait for the rest to be ready :)  The carrots are beginning to develop their mature leaves now as well which is incredibly exciting!

 Radish, carrots and coriander

 Buttler lettuce seedlings

 Broccoli and Bok Choi

 

 Spinach doing well, along with butter lettuce seedlings :)

 Spinach, butter lettuce, spring onion and garlic shoots!

 A baby radish!  Soooo cute!

Luscombe Street Update - Week 3

After a morning spent at CERES shopping for our fruit and veg, and helping a lovely friend of mine plant out her own little potted garden for her balcony, we headed up to the plot to have a look at how things were going and plant some seeds!

Everything is doing great.  The lettuce is going well in the Legume bed - the broadbeans haven't come up yet but I'm sure they will do in the next couple of weeks.  Radishes are sprouting in the Root / Fruit bed, and the bok choy seeds are also beginning to sprout in the Brassica bed.  We spread some parsley seeds across the plot along with coriander seeds in a few of the beds.  Apparently they are a great companion plant for peas and beans so I made sure we put plenty into that bed!

Our neighbour Jill kindly gave us some horse manure that she had picked up from a farm closeby so I spread a fair amount of that around the beds as well.  I'm sure the plants will appreciate that!  The spring onions are still to be planted but that will be a job for next week :)  Everything got a good water with Seasol as well.

The other cute thing that I put up were my homemade mobiles that made use of the offcuts from the plastic cup coloshes on the plants - you can see them dangling in the photos below.  Hopefully they will keep the birds and things away!

 Lettuce doing well in the Legume bed

 Radish seeds sprouting in the Root / Fruit bed

Planting some Coriander seeds in the Legume bed

 Bok Choy sprouts in the Brassica bed

The Plot - Looking North East