Donna's Garden: Oct 31, 2010

The new Elberta Peach tree

Cucumber seedling side of gate bed

Cucumber seedling front of gate bed

Plenty of new growth in veggie beds

During the last two weeks we have had 64 ml of rain. This is reflected in the lush grow in the garden. The beans in the toilet rolls had been a success with those doing much better than beans that were directly sown unprotected in the ground. I have extended this idea to a cucumber seedling I have sown in the strawberry bed. I have put six new cucumber seedlings in as it had become evident the two plants I thought were cucumbers grown from seed, were in fact zucchinis. The new seedlings are purchased lebanese. A new peach tree went in today. It was half price in desperate and dateless at Mitre 10. It has some curly leaf, but is taller than me. It may fruit next year if it takes. The Freckle lettuce had grown well over the last two weeks. I could start picking some now. The coriander has been a success and we have been eating that. (yum) The collards have done well under the curtain. I have removed the curtain today and will now start feeding leaves to the chokes. The babies are growing and I have several roosters to home. The from garden is doing well with many plants in flower. The wallaby grass has seed heads. The kangaroo paws are flowering. I bought another fejoa today to plant in the front yard. The existing one needs a mate to fruit. The one around the back doesn't flower. The rain is making a huge difference this year. We have been eating snow peas, silver beet, asparagus and herbs from the garden. The zucchinis are flowering. Penne gave me some egg plant seedlings today which I have squeezed in around the veggie beds.