Hello! Second day of spring and its continuing its gloomy mood – right now its raining quite heavily.
Was a good day to get into the hothouse and plant some more seeds (After a quick trip to the nursery to get my tomatoes!)
I enjoy looking at possibilities in the nurseries, but I settled on two heirloom Black Russian tomatoes and a punnet of capsicum (Large Red I think)
I am very excited to have my first tomatoes in – hopefully I will be able to grow more of these from their laterals. Of course I have some seeds planted and I am sure a ton of self seeding plants will pop up all over the place!
I was unsure how my collected seed capsicum would go – last year they were quite small. Thought some new stock wouldn’t be a bad thing. Three in the hothouse and the other three I have put into slightly larger pots so they can grow happily until the weather turns the corner and they can go outside.
Damn… just remembered I wanted to go cover them with containers in case a hungry slug took a fancy to them! BRB…
Well that was annoying! haha. I got a little soggy but its not too cold out there and happily nothing was eating my new seedlings.
I’d picked up some cheap potting mix – just something that was on sale at the supermarket- and did a half and half mixture with the mushroom compost.
I think these were the butternut pumpkin. I think 19 should be enough…
I planted a number of punnets of snow peas and runner beans. I may get a chance to sell them.
Anyway, I planted more zucchini, basil, marigolds & heirloom beefsteak tomatoes
Also planted fennel, silverbeet (rainbow chard) cucumber (both burpless & apple), portulaca & rock melon. Thats about all I can remember!
Its great seeing the hothouse filled with pots again!
The hothouse also has a few rogue strawberries, fennel & parsley
Once done, the rain eased so I took the opportunity to scramble over the back fence into the paddocks.
I had my eye on all the daffodils!
On a gloomy day they really brighten everything up!
I am going to ring the fellow that manages the paddocks and see if he minds me picking heaps of these to sell out the front! He has had no objections in the past, but its good form to ask again!
Pretty sure he wouldn’t mind me grabbing a bunch for the house anyway!
Hope your weekend is fabulous (and less soggy than mine!)
Cheers!
Beautiful daffodils!! I love the cheerful yellow color. They will brighten up any rainy day!! Here in Oregon, we have had a very hot and dry summer!! We’ve had several stretches of 90-100 weather. I’m not fond of the high heat. I can’t seem to get much done in the garden. You have to do your work early and then take a siesta in the afternoon! Ha!99
Hi Pat! I am glad I brought a bunch inside… It mostly poured all day along with being cold! Lovely to have those cheerful yellow flowers in here!
That kind of heat gets so tiring!! I must say though, I am hoping to get a little of it over summer (even though down here we don’t usually get the temps quite that high – thats mainland weather! lol) Hope things cool off a little for you! Sounds like the time to be swimming!! 🙂