picking the first of the blueberries- yeah!! While they were (very happily) occupied I took some pictures of the veggie garden:
A well hung capsicum. Capsicums cross-pollinate with each other and if there's a chilli in the mix you get undercover spicy hot peppers- they look like harmless old green capsicums but take a bite and wham- chilli pepper. To avoid this we put the chillies and the capsicums on opposite sides of the garden but I think it is one of those barriers like the smoking/ no smoking sides in family restaurants- it's there but smoke (and bees) can't read the signs... Oh well, lucky we all like chilli, hey?
rampaging cucumbers. Our JA official veggie growing bible had two whole pages on cucumber pruning for maximum results. Step 1 was remove all leaves in on the bottom 30cm of stalk one the plant is over 60cm tall. Easy. Step 2 was all about child stalks and grandchild stalks and when and where to cut them. As you can see we're not doing so well on that one. I think it's a good thing that two mums aren't very good at throwing children and grandchildren in the rubbish personally...
gratuitous green shot- yum and not an iceberg in sight. :)
the zucchinis are going great and we've been eating them raw in salads so far. Yum.
Cauliflower. Yeah! Last year huge green caterpillars ate them down to the ground so very happy that we've made it this far this year.
baby grapes. This grapevine has been mowed over, sat on, buried in a woodpile and ravaged by huge caterpillars and still it comes back. Not only comes back but this year we have baby grapes. Yeah!
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Just have to say, you really make me want to live in the country where I can grow lots of different things instead of a city where I am lucky to see a few trees here and there.
Zucchini raw! Might have to try that today. Still got a few left. Jo makes a truck load and I wonder how she gets through them all.
Grapes - jealous. Give it five years and you'll be offloading your very own fukases sav
Your zucchini looks great! Mine keep fizzling out. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. They get white spots at the base of the stem and then only produce stunted zucchini or none at all. We are all disappointed because we've become hooked on zucchini/soymilk bread every morning for breakfast.
The big green caterpillars got the last of our broccoli. They hide in it so well, it's really hard to find them.
I think it is wise of you to ignore JA's cucumber pruning advice. My husband followed it and now we are all drowning in cucumbers. They are yummy, but there are limits. Better to let them be free and happy and producing reasonable amounts of cucumbers.
The girls look adorable!!!! And you garden....fabulous.... Did you say grapes? And raw Zuc?
Wow, i am insanely jealous of your garden. Have I mentioned that before? The fact you are growing blueberries is blowing me away too- Yesterday I bought a small container of blueberries for 450yen and that was actually cheap compared to what I have paid before. Man they are good with yogurt though!
Love the non-iceberg lettuces.
I will be asking you for gardening tips once we have our own place- start thinking about what I can grow on our veranda that can be planted in summer please :-) (Or Autumn if nothing can be planted in summer- I do not know!)
Love GW`s idea of the sav too! Yum, yum! Oh I miss wine.
Once again you have made me jealous of your gardening skills!! I would love to be able to make a variety of fruit and vegetables in my own garden. Although with the luck I have I don't think any would actually live. I have managed to fry two punnets of strawberry plants and one parsley plant!
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