Child of the Planet

 

 

 

 I've planted them in the recently vacated garlic patch...

 

 This type got the rust first, but have pulled up some surprisinly decent bulbs...

 

 

  TE MATA FIRE × 3 Large: 60-70mm TE MATA ROSE × 3 Medium: 50-60mm TE MATA CREOLE × 3 Large: 60-70mm

Mustard is now at a decent height, so flattened it all with cardboard and laied a mound of mulch  

 

I’ve decided that due to the lack of sun that the other two beds get in the winter, that the south most bed will be the permanent site of the winter garden. I’m leaving the rampicanti, beans, and onions to continue till the cold wipes them out. The capsicums will get a cover to see if they can survive the winter.     I’m not clearing out the whole bed immediately, and planting amongst the summer crops. This winter I’m planting bok choy, and chinese cabbage from saved seed. Snow peas, coriander, fennel, spinach, broccoli, chicory, and carrots. I’m not going to use this tall growing frame anymore as the wind likes to push it over. Going to use these much smaller installations like the one below where I’ve planted snow peas. These will also function as wind breaks. The soy and corn have finished for the year. I’m now waiting on the beans. All that green up the front is self seeded celery which I'm very happy about. I'm finding that self seeding plants like tomatoes and cucumbers ...

 Click here to read about the walnuts past... nutbush-city-limits-and-or-great-nut mulching-under-young-trees

 

First time harvesting beans from the garden. I think most of these will end up as seed next year.  (planting the beans)

I think I’ve worked out how to get the ‘three sisters’ to work. Plant the beans so that they only properly take off when the corn is finished.

These are the first couple of plants I grew this year…

Hoping for a few more this year  (first fruit last year)

Getting some decent sized bulbs

Got a few more peaches this year. Put a couple in pots to see if I can grow a tree from the pit.

You could start processing all the veg in the garden for eating during the winter... A cucumber lacto fermentation, several Passata, a few bread and butter pickle, some piccalilli that was made when the scales were 'off' so it's stupid thick, and a truck load of tomato soup

Cyclonic SE winds were forecast for yesterday so I put up some pallet windbreaks and some nets. Would be nice to keep a few leaves on the lemon hedge, and it turns out that capsicum stems are pretty delicate. I'm trying to turn lots of little objects into one large object, and hoping the leaves don't get torn off individually while still allowing air and the rain to penetrate. Compared to the trees in the background, there is much less movement of leaves and branches under the net. The whole hedge is moving more like an undulating jelly. There is still air passing through the trees, but some of its energy has been dissipated. Corn out back got a bit 'thumped'