From Winter to Summer in One Week

Scarecrow’s Log: 18:10:2009:

What’s happening in the garden?
Rain was falling most of last week but it seems that might be all for the next month with only a chance of rain that coming weekend and next nothing more on the 28 day chart!
Temps are on their way up now and I shall have to dust off the shade covers whether summer arrives early!

Propagation:

On Market day that weekend many seedlings were sold so that has given me some room in the hothouse for more potting-on that week!

I’m getting ready for planting the Tomatoes later that week. I should have been hardening-off the seedlings last week but it was too windy, wet and cold.
So that coming week they will be out in the sun during the day for lengthening times until by the day they are planted they have spent a couple of full days and nights outside.
Cosmic by at Our Cosmic Garden says next weekend (23 and 24 Oct) should be right for planting Tomatoes out!!!
This week, in usual style, our temps are heading into the 30Cs so hopefully the frosts have ended!

Potting up and Planting out:

I did plant 3 Golden Zucchini plants into the Tank bed

where the Capsicum has by wintered (and is sprouting back to life)…it has a plastic cover by it which I will be removing as the temps rise that week.

Division:
A few Garlic Chives.

New in the Garden that week:

The Pathside Edge Picking Bed (note the encroaching Nasturtiums from the other side of the pathway before they were cut back!) in the Kitchen Garden is looking great that year with it’s mainly Onion and Garlic crops growing well.

Weekly Harvest Tally:
Doesn’t include Greens fed to the chooks on a daily basis or herbs picked for use in the kitchen for cooking or tea making.
Asparagus***420g
Broad Beans Peruvian Emerald***150g
Carrots Atomic Red***130g
Celery***300g

Plus a yummy mix of greens for soups/stirfries/salads…Kale, Lettuce, Watercress, Lebanese Watercress, Chives, Parsley, Sea Parsley, Beetroot Greens.

Plus 29 Eggs from the Farmyard Ferals and 7 from the Ginger Girls…even Sweet Old Blackie (at 13 years) produced an egg that week! (Luckydog got that one!)

[Source] Scarecrow