I mad rushed planted seeds, waited a fortnight, realized barely any sprouted, and repeat. I like to plant them early, and also some late, just getting a range of "ages" to extend harvest and ensure germination if the weather is being weird.
Got my tomatoes in, gooseberries...etc
I really hoped to get capsicum this year, didn't happen, so i ran out of seed and gave up!
Birds attacked half of my seedlings and i had to replant!
The best seedling pots is newspaper THROUGH AND THROUGH.
Did some weeding too...some plucking, some digging for this nasty heart shaped leaf rhizome one, and some smothering with cardboard:
I have seen an influx of a native bee here: They love the radish flowers and the cornflower so I may continue to plant cornflower (thought I haven't actively this year). Don't really want to dedicate too much to a plant that has 1 purpose, though it is edible I did NOT enjoy it so instead of being edible and bee attracting it is just one. (petals are tough and has barely any flavour). But it is pretty and my nephew loves it. So I wont pull out the existing one.
LOVED the watermelon radish. Tasted ok. Low calorie and so so pretty! I am trying to seed some, the flower is above, root below.
We are being run by these bunching onions. They are more like spring onions or even chives. A bit hopeless barely a bulb, not even worth it!!! I think I'll pull the lot out, slowly eating them, and then I will have some planted in a sandy area. ATM they are in almost every pot plant and just all over the place, it's excessive and I'd rather plant something else there.
I'm excited for some first time plants:
crimson forest onions, Salad burnet, Summer savoury (less spicy than the winter kind), brahmi, yacon, gooseberries, Oca / New Zealand Yam, strawberry spinach, winged bean (looks not promising), nigella (fail), black salsify, sage, toothache plant, dark opal basil, ...
Repeats: purple king bean, ...
