Right!! I slothed the day away yesterday, so today I was determined to pull on the gardening clothes and get some stuff planted!
Apart from all my collected seeds, I rummaged about for leftovers from last season as I am not confident my saved zucchini & cucumber seeds will germinate.
Lets see… I planted normal and yellow zucchini, mini rock melons, cucumber, basil (a lot), heirloom capsicum (a lot – from saved seed so fingers crossed they do the right thing), chilli, eggplant, pumpkin and some test corn.
I am testing some corn because I saved this from our harvest last season – I have never saved corn seed before and I don’t know if I had a hybrid or not. So I want to see if this germinates before planting stacks of duds and wasting time!
Then – for a change of scenery, I convinced Jeff to accompany me down to Ruby’s to put in her Christmas Peas (ie, the peas that go on the plate for Christmas Dinner)
I had covered this area in seaweed grass and it has done a pretty good job of keeping the weeds down. We weeded and raked aside most of the seaweed before digging the plot
We used some of Ruby’s Birthday Compost to dig into the area where the peas are to be planted then set up the rebar for them to climb on.
We were then taken inside for dinner – pumpkin soup and garlic bread and boy, did that hit the spot!
Have a great weekend everyone!!
Cheers!
the hanging plant from Margie looks like an orchid to me.
oooo I hope so! I’ll have to ask her!