It always fascinates me that the burning sun suits some plants down to a tee, but then five overcast rainy days and they are looking quite tardy. All the plants that were wilting in the sun come good again. Then out comes the sun once more to make sure everyone is on their toes. The ebb and flow of life.
The seedlings from a month ago are still not really at a point I’m happy to transplant them. For the past couple of days I’ve been applying worm wee to provide a bit of encouragement. Depending on how repeat plantings go over the next couple of fortnights I’m wondering if there is any point in bothering for the month or so from mid December to February.
If mid December seed growth is stunted because of the excessive heat, and later seeds grow really well when the weather has calmed down a bit, then next year I’ll give December a miss and recommence with two seed trays at the beginning of February.
The trick is to grow a lot of what works early in order to keep the summer soil covered as much as possible whilst there are no seedlings to fill gaps.
Harvesting has been fairly steady and in addition to what I show in the video, we got some almonds off the tree for the first time. Hoping that is a good sign we’ll have more from now on.
On the whole are still way too reliant on shop bought carrots and broccoli in my opinion, but it has been noticeable with some meals just how much produce we are growing – boiled potatoes with mint (Pink Eye potatoes are absolutely the best for this, I’m salivating writing about it!), corn, and then a salad of homegrown tomato, cucumber, lettuce and green beans. Doesn’t get much better than that, unless you have chickens who actually lay eggs. Follow that up with preserved home grown peaches and home made yoghurt and we are almost there. Just need a cow for the yoghurt milk….
