Autumn 2008

Compost so good you can eat it, lovely eggplant and yummo pumpkin all from our patch!!

Winter harvest 2008

Our lovely patch Winter 2008

First harvest amazing

Seed savers

We have been so successful (to our total shock and amazement) that we are now saving seeds.

This is the Seed Saver network we are now a part of.

Seeds saved this year include millions of radish (which came from one plant, which bolted after only a few weeks in the ground). We also have lots of cos lettuce and endive, many more than we could ever consume on our own. So if you need any such seeds you can contact us on perinij at ozemail.com.au replace the at with an @.

Our seedlings are growing! (AKA We don't have black thumbs!)

Well its official.
With the recent rain and warm weather we have been experiencing the seedlings are taking off.
As you can see, the before and after shots are pretty amazing (maybe not so amazing if you are used to plants growing, but for city slickers like us this is wonderful)
We have also tasted our crop of lettuce, and spinach from the common area. At last we know what real, freshly grown food tastes like. It's just so nice, and you can also say, we grew that.
Anyway I'll stop prattling and show you the photos.



Garden in early September





Garden in late October



Sunflower


Spinach seedling

Planting

Today I planted about 10 beetroot seeds, as it is getting warmer and I noticed a few beetroots doing quite well in the community garden. I've put a few in a pot, to see if that helps.

Many of the seedlings in the plot are not getting much bigger, they seem to all be about 1 cm tall and staying that size, even if I put a little cover over the top of them. I think perhaps they're just not getting enough warmth. And I haven't had to water them once in 6 weeks due to all this rain, so many have died. Even the fungus in our plot has gone green, so that means we have moss on top of fungus, ah!

I've put a bit of worm juice on them to see what happens, not too much though as I didn't want to fry them. I've watered it down 1 part worm juice to 10 parts water.

Seedlings are growing

Radishes are growing like wild fire


As are the chick peas. Only a few weeks old and growing like crazy. Lucky we like hummus.

Love is by Stephanie Dowrick

Love is earth.
Tend it.
Love is seed.
Water it.
Love is tender shoot.
Protect it.
Love is first leaf.
Celebrate it.
Love is air.
Breathe it.
Love is rain.
Receive it.
Love is waiting.
Contain it.
Love is bud.
Rejoice in it.
Love is flower then fruit.
Accept it.
Love is abundance.
Share it.
Love is dying down.
Understand it.
Love is returning.
Trust it.
Love is.
– Stephanie Dowrick, Love is

Reproduced with permission of the author

Top pix: chick peas growing like crazy
Surprise seeds (might either be flowers, chamomile or parsley) I direct seeded these so it will be a surprise
Radishes (now four leaves big)

More seedlings!

Despite our little plot only gettng sun about one hour of every day (a big tree shades the garden) more little seedlings have sprouted! This week we witnessed the birth of some Salad Burnett, two chick peas and some radishes!

Top two radish seedlings
Bottom chick pea