29/1/11

Unfortunately we did not eat many of our apricots this year.  We had about 120ml of rain just a couple of days before they were ready.  They all split.

29/1/11

Nectarines

Nashi

Yesterday I picked our first crop of nectarines just over 2KG.  The tree came as a seedling from Penne.  From memory her mother grew it.











Today we started picking nashi.  We picked most of the back tree and some of the nashi for the side tree.  It is going to be 40C for the next two day and I didn't want them to burn on the trees.  The birds and the harlequin beetles were starting to get into them.

1st Jan 2011

After eight days the beans are  up and away.   Some protection was needed when a canine friend visiting on Christmas decided she would like to do some digging.  These seemed to encourage passing bantams and wild birds to have a go.
Next year I must give more space to the individual plants.  To much over lapping means nothing grows well.  I do have beans in my grape vine.  They are well protected from the sun.  I picked the first beans this week but we ate the before I could take a photo.

Some of the strawberries seem intent on running rather than fruiting.

Beans with protection.

Strawberries.

Front Garden

The girls are growing.

  

Nashies and Roca

Burnt Avocado

Young figs

Wallaby Grass.

First cucumber

Kipfler potatoes in tyre experiment.

The last day of the year was a 41C scorcher.  Some of the plums are burnt.  The tips of the avocados didn't do to well either.  Some shoots on the established climbing beans were shrivelled.   I tried covering things up with sheets and curtains.  This was only partly success full as the strong winds blew things around.  I proper shade set up will have to be devised over winter.  Unfortunately a lot the little berries on the new little Cherry Guava bush are shrivelled.  They were doing quite well.

23rd Dec 2010

Bean seeds planted

The  garden beds had become so over grown that nothing was getting a fair go.  Time to clean up.   A clear area was created in the garden gate bed so some beans could be sown.  I am sticking with the toilet roll method.  I have sown Blue Lake and Purple King near the trellis (sourced from Penne) and butter beans in front of the others.  A surviving tomato seedling was plated in the corner.  I'm not sure what variety.

Strawberry bed