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.

We will get cherries this year for the first time!

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.

SPRING HUSTLE

OH the hustle and bustle of spring!


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.

Also I'm over Kale. LESSON LEARNED only 2 max of each kind of kale, you don't even like Kale anyway! (except as "pizza" chips)

 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, ...