Growing Challenge Update 2

There is lots of planting and maintenance happening in the garden but not a lot of harvesting as we really are in between seasons at the moment. All the winter produce has now finished and I am awaiting some summer vegies to get a move on! We have had a couple of quite cool weeks so things are really quite slow.

For harvesting at present

• rhubarb
• garlic all needs to be pulled this week
• still asparagus, although probably for not much longer
• English Spinach
• Strawberries (there would be bucket fulls if it wasn't for the bugs)
• lots of herbs although the coriander has now finished and won't be replanted until the end of summer

Planted over the last week

• 2 punnets of leeks
• 1 punnet of spring onions
• 1 punnet of basil into old laundry troughs
• 6 Japanese pumpkins (don't really need them, but couldn't resist grabbing a punnet and having a go as I haven't grown them before)
• 3 zucchini I raised in the greenhouse
• row of climbing beans

Maintenance this week

• Pulled out the rest of the silverbeet (all gone to seed) and gave to the pet lambs who loved them
• pulled out rest of climbing peas and moved frame to put climbing beans on
• finished putting pea strew around tomatoes, eggplant and capsicum, Ian brough more down from the shed so there is more to go around this week
• potted more baby asparagus seedlings
• gave most of the vegie garden and pots a good dose of seaweed solution

'The Boys' waiting for another wheelbarrow load of scraps from the garden
Henry, Alex, Charles, Lawrence and Bruce