Just a Little Gardening

Hello!! A strange sea mist rolled in this afternoon! I was working outside and it was pretty hot, so decided to go for a drive down to the beach for a swim! Not five minutes down the road and its like I am driving through a London Pea Soup Fog!!
(Still the dip was nice!)

Time to make better use of this plot! The lettuce had gone bitter and the snow peas all sprawled out like this really wasn’t making optimal use of space… the snow peas were just about done here anyway.

I’ve now planted two rows of basil seeds in the right side -if they germinate well I’ll transplant all over that side and into other areas later.
The left side I put in a row of cos lettuce – will also transplant them around when (if) they pop up.
Also put in two more rows of beetroot because… well why not?

Tentacular was given another small haircut today. Being honest – I really have lost control of him.
So I did some minor clearing up in other corners of the hothouse

It was hard, but I pulled up the nicely growing self seeded tomatoes. I really wanted the eggplant and capsicum to have more of a chance

There is one self seeded one I am still trying to keep under control – cut it back a bit and tied it up again.

It finally looks like another couple of cucumbers have pollinated and are making progress

I also redirected a few errant parts of the vine back up the rebar trellis rather than sprawling out over the marigolds and other plants

I am pretty sure my tomatoes are channeling Jacks Beanstalk and are on their way up and out.
The tomatoes are never going to change colour.

The Melon Corner is doing fine. I have redirected them up as well. No fruit yet of course…

Anyway, I was melting in there so I was happy just to do some essentials then escape.

The corn that was eaten by rabbits and chooks is doing a splendid job!!

Loving adding the rocket to the nightly salads!

These lettuce are a puzzle. They look nothing like the first lot I planted out – but were all from the same seedlings that I originally grew!!

The capsicum are slow – not sure if I will get anything happening before the season turns, but… have to try anyway!

Pretty much all of the dead-looking spring onions have come back to life well!

Lateral tomatoes forging ahead!

Sweet baby carrots

The obligatory armful of zucchinis

And thats a lot of dinner covered!

There are a couple of plums left that the birds missed… nice to have a munch on those. I think I’ll have to make time to get under the nets (fat lot of good they did anyway) and pick whats there and cook them up. I can’t imagine how many plums the rotten things have scoffed.

Win some seasons, lose others!

Some of the random seeds that Emma planted for me have popped out in flower!!

Anyway, thats the rounds of the garden done!
Time for bed – feeling all that lovely sunshine I soaked up today!
Hope your day was great too!
Cheers