Showing posts with label borage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label borage. Show all posts

Saturday, October 1, 2016

Spring 2016

My garden this spring- i didn't sow any seeds because i'm stupid!!

Borage going nuts! Yay! Bees love me!
Borage again
Rocket on the left, beans on the right and onions
we have cola on the far left (behind nasturtium) and volunteer brassicas, mint absolutely blossoming the last 2 weeks! Strawberries now in hanging baskets! 
all the strawberries flowering since late winter and hopefully soon some will be ready to eat!

strawberry spinach in the middle. Alliums do not take kindly to replanting. oops.

yellow nasturtiums came out of nowhere! Oak lettuce was tasty and fruitful! Only shame is that it is an awkward long skinny shape (like an overgrown rocket leaf) which i hate.  I prefer them round like tom thumb- though less wrinkly! (I'm fussy i know). Has a "sugar pea" like flavour.
Dill, only took 4 years to FINALLY freaking grow one! 

Rocket, brigade, pegasus and "our hybrid heirloom one" that we've been growing ourselves for about 10 years. Dad recons it crossed with a radish?
Blueberry flowers! Unfortunately one of them died- so not sure i'll get anything this year :(
Bit hectic! Cape gooseberry dominating the blue barrel. The dill is a tree! 

Nasturtiums are quite pretty even if they stink. Climbing up the fence too is quite pretty! Borage actually grows if it is in the soil- who knew?!

cape gooseberry - tasted one today- the flavour is sour then sweet. So odd! Floral, fruity and tomatoey- but not much. Insane! I quite like it.

Snails i will murder you all. My poor yacon!!!!

spearmint

persimmon growing some buds- you can see my poor cotton plant died just before the flowers bloomed when a frost killed it, i should have figured a way to cover it. oh well. :'( I would have had 30 cotton balls! SO FREAKING SAD!!!! Snails like to eat my cotton seedlings. Weirdos.

Kale and brussel sprouts slowly being murdered by my father, some tomato seedlings out of view.
FINALLY in the ground the pepino melon survived the winter and FLOURISHED. I have one that the snails got to- realy stunts it. Rude buggers...
As you can see the valerian looks fine- what you don't know is it entirely died in the winter and came back up. Last winter it didn't die- how odd?!!

Beans and nasturtium under the tree with a "volunteer" borage- i had been throwing borage flower heads over on purpose praying for some to grow!! Haha. You can hear the humm of the bees!

PIGFACE! From a cutting took 3 years to grow- then my father chops off 50% of it just before flowering season- WHAT AN A- HOLE

wounds from him killing my plants are not even fresh but it is the reason why i stopped sowing seeds, because in fact i had sown seed- but he RIPPED THEM OUT all 3 times, so i just give up. 

Monday, October 26, 2015

Replacing murdered seedlings

Sigh....

Well the birds, sun, and snails alike just won't give me a break!

I had to let some go and not even bother with replanting them. The uncharacteristic random boiling days fried a bunch of seedlings and my corn salad. That mache being fried, will leave a hole in my heart. Seriously my FAVOURITE green, the stems are tender and delicious. I love love love it so so much. I will definitely plant a huge crop. It is a magnet for leaf miner, but so is milk thistle so I purposely grow that too (the birds like the flower heads too!). So I did replant some later that I felt would be worth it.

Ok, I replanted the last lot of "Spring" seeds, even though summer is at our door. The last tomatoes and another cotton plant.

I bought lots of ornamentals from bunnings. It was the best fun. I'd love to create terrariums as a job in all seriousness. I did spot green zebra at bunnings, and they didn't lie on the internet when they said they produce the biggest crop. I'm super impressed!!!!

I looked into permiculture recently and I'm excited to work some things into my garden.

I feel this year everything is growing at half speed. I'm super anxious about it too.

Repotted the blueberries, thyme, got a caper bush, ...

I do hope my seedlings make it.






my beetroot and greens

my flowers
my beets, white and red, the white might be swiss chard...
spirooli veggies, nothing but the lemon from my garden.
brussel sprouts leaves are perfect for round wraps!



dog loves chroming the southern wormwood and so do i!


my daikon! Flowers and greens (not olives).
my dried stevia for sweetness! It came up after winter! YAY I should repot it thought it hates the sand.
my greens serves with a croquette.
yup, this was a bit ago but still.

daikons, they were all woody :(

Also Green Radish seed pods are edible?!  Spicey! Who knew!?







kale taller than I, only took 2 years!

native stingless bee
my daikon spirooli gluten free "pasta"

I think it looks like a Dr Zeus character! LOL
My entire carrot harvest so far.
I love a fresh cardboard pathway!
lentil bud
Yes I take screen cap photos from my instagram. :p I'm lazy, what can i say?!

 only got 2 poppies
 Sorry neighbours, no doubt you'll get borage popping up in your yard! 


 Kale went Ape this season!
This is how i weed.