Saturday, June 5, 2010

Whats been happening in the patch?

Well.... Autumn has been kind to us. We have had lots of lovely salad greens, the chillies and capsicums have been good producers, but more exciting the broccoli is finally getting up and going after my futile attempts to protect them from the months/White butterfly, finally now with the first sightings of florets foarming on the green broccoli!!-


This is my first time growing brassicas! I can hardly wait to see the purple and Romanesco broccoli start to form. I am also attempting to grow cauliflower and brussels sprouts but they have been alot slower. Bounty peas have produced quite well considering we only planted a small punnet full. And the joys of shucking your own fresh peas! Simply devine! Alas still not much luck with the snow peas and think I will be moving onto other varietys next season. Sugar snap peas were sown a couple of weeks ago and are coming up and trailing up their trelisis well so far so will see if we get a better harvest.

But soon I will be waving goodbye to my current veggie patch to make room for a more ‘tropical’ themed garden, much to my dismay- I have been out voted 3-1. But not to worry, the veggies will continue to grow- container style- in another location, as once you know the joys of growing your own produce there is no going back! (I just keep thinking how to squeeze in all the cucumber/pumpkin/tomato variteys I wanted to grow over summer along with an aray of chillies, capsicums, salad greens & herbs....... Where there’s a will, theres a way!